[1385] Our author has followed Swammerdam in this unnatural separation of those Diptera whose metamorphosis is coarctate from the rest; and in associating with them the Chalcidites, whose metamorphosis is really different. Into this error both were led by system.
[1386] Philos. Lett. &c. 141.
[1387] Ibid. 343.
[1388] Ray died in 1705, and Linné was born in 1707.
[1389] When a boy he attempted to introduce wasps and bees into his father's garden, to the great annoyance of the old gentleman.—Stœver's Life of Linnæus, 4.
[1390] Ibid. 75.
[1391] Linn. Philos. Botan. n. 87, 188, 189.
[1392] See above, p. [342], n. 5.
[1393] Linn. n. 291.
[1394] Fn. Suec. Præf.