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tification in his " conviction that this society will 



not only prove a centre round which the entomologists of this 

 country will rally, but also be the means of facilitating a cor- 

 dial intercourse with our brethren in every quarter of the 

 world. The advantages to be expected from such an inter- 

 course cannot but prove most important to the best interests 

 of the science ; the promotion of which, by every means in 

 their power ought to be, and, I am confident, will be, the 

 great object of the members of the .... society, especially 

 of those who, in the full enjoyment of youth, health, and ta- 

 lent, are best qualified to effect it." 



Newman, Edward, F.L.S. : The Grammar of Entomology. 

 Foolscap 8vo, 304 pages, 4 plates, 2 of them coloured. 

 London, 1835. 8s. 6d, 



Extracts from the Preface. — " The want of an easy in- 

 troductory work on insects has been obvious to many. For 

 the last two years, during which time it has been generally 

 known that he has contemplated the task, the author has 

 received numerous and pressing solicitations to proceed with 

 it. He has at last made the attempt : he has done his best. 

 .... He supposes his reader utterly ignorant of entomology, 

 and endeavours to show him that it is the History of Insects 

 [book i.], and the Physiology of Insects [book ii.], and the 

 Classification of Insects [book iii.], and the Art of preserving 

 Insects [book iv.] ;" and to explain to his reader each of 

 these H The third book, entitled Classification of In- 

 sects, may be charged with being too original. It may be said 

 that the author should have given the views and arrangements 

 of others, in preference to his own. He would ask, whose 

 system was he to select? That his own is the most simple, 

 and the most readily understood, no one will deny : that it is 

 more perfect, or more accurate, or more philosophical, than 

 any other, he does not presume to contend." 



The author is distinguished for the intimacy and extent of 

 his knowledge of entomology. This is a ground for an as- 

 surance of the excellency of the matter contained in the pre- 

 sent work ; and this matter he has presented so agreeably, 

 and so explicitly, that not any one who is anxious for a know- 

 ledge of the science can use this Grammar of it without finding 

 it a powerful means of furthering the object in request. The 

 work will, we feel impressed, very much promote the already 

 increasing popularity of entomology. This result would be 

 to the author, who is enthusiastic in diffusing and increasing 

 the pleasures which a cultivation of the knowledge of ento- 

 mology produces, his dearest meed. 



