sentences:  In 1794 Peck published "Description of Four Remarkable Fishes...", the first American taxonomic paper on zoology.In 1795 he began writing on entomology and in 1796 he won a prize from the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture for his paper on the natural history of the cankerworm, "Phalaena vernata".Additional works on entomology followed, often accompanied by his own illustrations which demonstrated an aptitude for drawing.