_Later Insect Anatomists._ It is impossible even to glance at the many anatomists who have illustrated the structure of Insects by studies, less simple in plan, but not less profitable to science, than those of the monographers. If we attempt to select two or three names for express mention, it is with a conviction that others are left whom the student is bound to hold in equal honour. Dufour[5] laboured, not unsuccessfully, to construct a General Anatomy of Insects, which should combine into one view a crowd of particular facts. The modern reader will gratefully acknowledge his industry and the beauty of his drawings, but will now and then complain that his sagacity does not do justice to his diligence. [5] Dufour. Rech. anat. et phys. sur les Hémiptères (1833) les Orthoptères, les Hymenoptères et les Neuroptères (1841), et les Diptères (1851). Mém. de l’Institut, Tom. IV., VII., XI. Also many memoirs in Ann. des Sci. Nat. Newport,[6] a naturalist of greater weight and interest, is memorable for his skill in minute dissection, for his many curious observations upon the life-history of Insects (see, for example, his memoir on the Oil-beetle), and especially for his early appreciation of the value of embryological study. [6] Newport. Art. “Insecta,” in Cycl. of Anat. and Phys. (1839), besides many special memoirs in the Phil. and Linn. Trans. Leydig[7] was the first to occupy fully the new field of Insect histology, and point out its resources to the physiologist. In all his works the student finds beauty and exactness of delineation, suggestiveness in explanation. Leydig’s contributions to Insect anatomy and physiology, valuable as they are to the specialist, are not isolated researches, but form part of a new comparative anatomy, based upon histology. Incomplete so vast a work must necessarily remain, but it already extends over considerable sections of the animal kingdom. [7] Leydig. Vom Bau des Thierischen Körpers (1864), Tafeln zur vergl. Anatomie (1864), Untersuchungen zur Anat. und Histologie der Thiere (1883), &c., besides many special memoirs in Müller’s Archiv., Zeits. f. wiss. Zool., Nova Acta, &c. CHAPTER II. THE ZOOLOGICAL POSITION OF THE COCKROACH. Sub-kingdom ARTHROPODA. Class I. Crustacea. " II. Arachnida. " III. Myriopoda. " IV. Insecta. Order 1. Thysanura. " 2. _Orthoptera._ " 3. Neuroptera. " 4. Hemiptera. " 5. Coleoptera. " 6. Diptera. " 7. Lepidoptera. " 8. Hymenoptera. The place of the Cockroach in the Animal Kingdom is illustrated by the above table. It belongs to the sub-kingdom Arthropoda, to the class Insecta, and to the order Orthoptera. _Characters of Arthropoda._