Early Scientific Career
Macleay's principal work was Horae Entomologicae; or, Essays on the Annulose Animals, parts 1-2 (1819–1821). He also published Annulosa Javanica or an Attempt to illustrate the Natural Affinities and Analogies of the Insects collected in Java by T. Horsfield, no. 1 (London, 1925).
Other minor publications on insects including Remarks on the devastation occasioned by Hylobius abietis in fir plantations in the Zoological Journal and several notes in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. Macleay sent many insects to Frederick William Hope, now in the Hope Department of Entomology. He was also a correspondent of Charles Darwin, though he disagreed fervently with the latter's theories of evolution.
Macleay was the originator of the short-lived Quinarian system of classification, which is used extensively in his Horae Entomologicae.
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