APPENDIX 



TO THE 



THIRTY-NINTH NUMBER 



OF THE « 



NEW SERIES 



OF THE 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL HISTORY 



BY THE EDITOR. 



The Editor of the ^Entomological Magazine,' in termina- 

 ting that journal with the completion of the fifth volume, 

 and in voluntarily coming forward to render some ac- 

 count of his stewardship, tells us, he has resolved upon re- 

 linquishing on tJiis occasion, the editorial plural, that he 

 may address his brother entomologists in the more ego- 

 tistical but less assuming singular. My intercourse with 

 those v/ho peruse the columns of the * Magazine of Natu- 

 ral History' has not yet, in point of duration, placed me 

 in the same relative position as that lately occupied by 

 my Mend, Mr. Newman : — still, the period has been long 

 enough to make me think that, for once, I also may throw 

 aside the attribute in question, and may venture to address 

 the readers of this journal, not as the representative of those 

 who contribute, or of those who subscribe to its pages, and, as 

 such a representative, wielding a power that does not attach 

 itself to the abstract expression of individual sentiment ; — but 

 in the character simply of a student in the glorious domain 

 of nature, anxious, with them, to drink at the sources of sci- 

 entific knowledge, and, at the same time not forgetful that to 

 add something, however trivial, towards widening the stream 

 as it flows from the fountain, is the sole return that can be 

 made, for having tasted of its waters. 



The position I am about to place myself in, — that of 

 principal in a cause which will stand recorded as " Charles- 

 worth versus Lyell and Owen," but which, perhaps, might 

 be more justly designated as "Lyell and Owen versus Charles- 

 worth," — is one, that with those who may not care to sift the 

 matter for themselves, will probably lay me open to unfa- 



