the 18th century, public lecture courses and the publication of popular texts opened up new roads to money and fame for amateurs and scientists who remained on the periphery of universities and academies. Books owned by the Belfast Natural History Society reflect such changes, although some of the more expensive works were the gift of Thomas Fortescue and Arthur Hill. They included: Georges Cuvier, 1829 Regne Animalium, in English, The Animal Kingdom, published by Chez Deterville at Paris; 1832 Class Insecta Whitaker, London Justin Pierre Marie Macquart, 1834–1835. Histoire naturelle des insectes. Dipteres Paris : Roret. Pierre André LatreilleGenera crustaceorum et insectorum, secundum ordinem naturalem ut familias disposita (4 vols., 1806 1807 1807 1809) Peter Simon Pallas Zoographia Rosso-asiatica Friedrich Wilhelm Martini Neues systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet; Emanuel Mendez da Costa A Natural History of Fossils (1757), Elements of Conchology, or An Introduction to the Knowledge of Shells (1776), British Conchology (1778) Gilbert White The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789) Thomas Pennant History of Quadrupeds Johannes Allart, Afbeeldingen der fraaiste, meest uitheemsche boomen en heesters. Amsterdam, Johannes Allart, 1802 [-1808]; William Smith Strata by Organized Fossils (1815); Louis Agassiz Recherches sur les poissons fossiles (1833–1843); Philipp Franz von Siebold Fauna Japonica: Birds or Aves, 1844–1850 12 vol.; Fish or Pisces 1842–1850 16 vol.; Crustaceans or Crustacea 1833–1850 8 vol.; Mammals or Mammalia 1842–1844 4 vol Pierre Barrère Ornithologiae Specimen Novum, sive Series Avium in Ruscinone, Pyrenaeis Montibus, atque in Galliâ Aequinoctiali Observatarum, in Classes, genera & species, novâ methodo, digesta (1745); Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg Die Waldverderber und ihre Feinde, Berlin, 1841 Notable members John Templeton Robert Templeton James MacAdam Robert Shipboy MacAdam Thomas Graves R.N. Charles Wyville Thomson Ralph Tate James Bryce Thomas Andrews Thomas Workman John Grainger James Emerson Tennent John Grattan George Dickie James Grimshaw (naturalist) William Thomas Braithwaite Gallery See also William Bullock A companion to Mr. Bullock's London Museum and Pantherion 1812 gives a notion of an early 19th-century museum, though not a scientific one. Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne Leskean Cabinet Dublin University Zoological Association Cuvierian Society of Cork References Foster, J. W. and Chesney, H. C. G (eds.), 1977.Nature in Ireland: A Scientific and Cultural History Lilliput Press . Nash, R., 1983. A brief summary of the development of entomology in Ireland during the years 1790–1870 Irish Naturalists' Journal 21:145–150. Foster, J.W., 1990 Natural History, Science and Irish Culture. Author: