Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst Natursystem aller bekannten in- und ausländischen Insecten, als eine Fortzetsung der von Büffonschen Naturgeschichte. Nach dem System des Ritters Carl von Linné bearbeitet or, in English, "Natural system of all well-known in [Europe] and foreign Insects, as a continuation of Buffon’s natural history. After the system of the honoured master, Carl von Linné". This is a superbly illustrated work on world and European Coleoptera. Jablonsky was private secretary to the Queen of Prussia. Johann Wilhelm Zetterstedt (1785–1874) born. Zetterstedt worked mainly on Diptera. Antoine François, comte de Fourcroy Entomologia Parisiensis, sive, Catalogus insectorum quae in agro Parisiensi reperiuntur ..., co-written with Étienne Louis Geoffroy, published in this year, was a major contribution to systematic entomology. 1786 Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting Verzeichniss und Beschreibung der Tyroler-Insecten. Lists and descriptions of Tirol insects. Ernst Friedrich Germar born. 1787 Thomas Say (1787–1834) born. 1788 Linnean Society of London founded. The Society published many important works on insects. Caspar Stoll Representation des Spectres ou Phasmes, des Mantes...Sauterelles des Grillons et des Blattes published. This work contains beautiful plates of praying mantis species. Guillaume-Antoine Olivier Entomologie ou Histoire Naturelle des Insectes, avec leurs Caracteres Generiques et Specifiques, leur Description, leur Synonomie et leur Figure Illuminee. Coleopteres. commenced publication in Paris. The first volumes preceded Latreille's in time and the system used was a combination of Linne and Fabricius. Johann Wilhelm Meigen commences study of Diptera. Naturhistorieselskabet founded in Denmark Johann Jacob Roemer Genera Insectorum Linnaei et Fabricii, Iconibus Illustrata published. Carl Peter Thunberg Dissertatio Entomologica Novas Insectorum species sistens, cujus partem quintam. Publico examini subjicit Johannes Olai Noraeus, Uplandus. Upsaliae published. Johann Kaspar Füssli Neue Magazin für Liebhaber der Entomologie (last part 1786). Charles Joseph Devillers publishes Caroli Linnaei entomologia1789. August Batsch Versuch einer Anleitung, zur Kenntniß und Geschichte der Thiere und Mineralien, für akademische Vorlesungen entworfen, und mit den nöthigsten Abbildungen versehen. Zweyter Theil. Besondre Geschichte der Insekten, Gewürme und Mineralien, in English Provisional guide to the knowledge, development and history of the animals and minerals, designed for academic lectures Part 2 The particular history of insects, on worms, and minerals. 1790 Jan Daniel Preysler publishes Verzeichnis böhmischen Insekten in Prague. 1791 John Curtis (1791–1862) born. Johann Ludwig Christ publishes Naturgeschichte, Klassifikation und Nomenklatur der Insekten vom Bienen, Wespen und Ameisengeschlecht. Johann Gottlob Schneider begins publication of Neues Magazin für Liebenhaber der Entomologie. Strasland 1792 The Dublin Society purchases the natural