The cabinet of oriental entomology, 19th C

Ceylon tree nymph (Idea iasonia).

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John Obadiah Westwood (1805 – 1893) was an English entomologist and archaeologist also noted for his artistic talents. Born in Sheffield, he studied to be a lawyer but abandoned that for his scientific interests. He became a curator and later professor at Oxford University, having been nominated by this friend and patron the Reverend Frederick William Hope, whose donation was the basis of the Hope Collection at Oxford. He was also a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford.

Westwood was a Fellow of the Linnean Society and president of the Entomological Society of London (1852–1853).

Among the prominent writers and naturalists he associated with was James Rennie, whom he assisted in the editing of Gilbert White's The Natural Historyand Antiquities of Selborne in 1833.

 

Hestia hypermnestra (Idea hypermnestra).

Bacteria sarmentosa (Phryganistria virgea).

Picturesque travel through Germany, 19th C

Hamburg, from Voyage pittoresque en Allemagne (Picturesque travel through Germany)

Xavier Marmier (22 June 1808 - 12 October 1892) was a French author born in Pontarlier, city famous for the production of absinthe until its prohibition in 1915. Xavier had a great passion for traveling, and combined this passion with literature. After journeying around Switzerland, Belgium and the Netherlands, he was attached in 1835 to the Arctic expedition of the Recherche; and after a couple of years at Rennes as professor of foreign literature, he visited (1842) Russia, (1845) Syria, (1846) Algeria, (1848–1849) North America and South America. 

In 1870 he was elected to the Academy (Seat #31), and he was for many years prominently identified with the Sainte-Geneviève library. He did much to encourage the study of Scandinavian literature in France, publishing translations of Holberg, Oehlenschlager and others. He died in Paris in 1892.

Lübeck, from Voyage pittoresque en Allemagne (Picturesque travel through Germany)

Wrocław, the city hall.

St. Lorenz church, Nuremberg.

Dresden.