ENTOMOLOGISTS AND INSECTS IN THE WORLD MEDALLIC ART

INTRODUCTION The Auxiliary Sciences of History (Special Historical Disciplines (SHD) – in Ukraine) are scholarly disciplines which help evaluate and use historical sources and are seen as auxiliary for historical research. SHD which study certain types of sources (numismatics, bonistics, phaleristics, philately, etc.), more precisely, the objects studied by these disciplines (table or art medals, commemorative coins from the moment of their appearance, paper banknotes and philatelic production), have been increased their informativeness and got in recent decades new function. This function, which has not yet been formulated quite clearly and unequivocally by experts, is to be a historical material source (or a manual) for studying history of: sciences (biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, etc.), types of art (painting, music, sculpture, architecture, etc.), geography, politics, etc. We mean that using information which has contained by medals, coins, banknotes, stamps, postal blocks and other material sources, one can study history, for example, the history of entomology . Among SHD sources devoted to entomology majority are the objects of philately, which is natural, given their large circulations issued by most countries of the world 6, 7, 8, 9, . It should be noted that the vast majority of stamps are not dedicated to entomologists, but insects. At the same time, numerous table medals belonging to the SHD sources are dedicated to the entomologists. There are some publications about one or