128 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



It does not appear that the Land Isopods of 

 Scotland have been worked np so thoroughly as 

 many of the other groups of our land Fauna. 

 They are generally looked upon with a [certain 

 amount of repugnance ; and yet they are a very 

 harmless and very useful clas« of animals, and 

 certainly by no means uninteresting when either 

 they or their habits are made the subject of 

 examination. The absurd and almost superstitious 

 prejudice with which many of these lowly organisms 

 are viewed forms a great hindrance to the study of 

 them ; and if one could throw such notions aside, 

 and consider them all as made and cared for by 

 the same great and beneficent Power whom we 

 reverence as our Creator and Preserver, one's 

 interest and pleasure in their examination and 

 study would be greatly enhanced. 



Know . . . that he who feels contempt 

 For any living thing, hath faculties 

 Which he has never used ; that thought with him 

 Is in its infancy. — Wordsworth. 



