KIEBY AND SPENCE'S ENTOMOLOGY. 



SIXTHS THOUSAND OF THE SEVENTH AND CHEAPEE EDITION. 



Just Published, in One closely-printed Volume, of 600 pages, crown 8vo., 



price 5s., cloth, 



INTRODUCTION TO ENTOMOLOGY; 



OR, 



ELEMENTS OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OP INSECTS. 



Comprising an Account of Noxious and Useful Insects; of their Metamorphoses, 

 Food, Stratagems, Societies, Motions, Hybernation, Instinct, etc. 



BY WILLIAM KIEBY, M.A., E.E.S., F.L.S., Eector of Barham; and 

 WILLIAM SPENCE, ESQ., F.E.S., F.L.S. 



Seventh Edition, (sixth thousand,) with an Appendix relative to the Origin and 



Progress of the Work. 



"No work in the English language, we believe, 

 has done more than Kirby and Spencc's learned 

 and popular Introduction to spread the taste for 



Natural History at home The book is, indeed, 



a marvel of cheapness, — considerably more than 600 



closely-printed octavo pages for five shillings To 



our readers, old and young, —parents, children, 

 teachers, respectively, we say, 'buy and read;' enjoy, 

 verify, and enlarge, by the use of your own eyes and 

 faculties, the curious details in rural economy, 

 animal biography, and mental philosophy, amassed 

 with so much study and personal observation, and 

 digested with equal taste and judgment by the 

 learned authors."— Natural History Rf.vikw. 



"It is almost impossible to read this engaging 

 volume without becoming enamoured of the study 

 of the little creatures whose habits and instincts it 

 describes; and the rapidity with which the new 

 edition is now being sown broadcast over the land, 

 may reasonably be expected to produce before long 

 an abundant crop of incipient Entomologists. But 



it is not young people merely who are taken cap- 

 tive by this book. We have lately met with two 

 instances in which it has exerted a similar influence 

 over persons in advanced life, and devoted to pur- 

 suits which might be supposed little calculated to 

 leave room for any enthusiasm on behalf of insects. 

 In one case a learned friend of ours, who had just 

 been exploring', and with good results, the fusty 

 Syriac MSS. of the British Museum, was so de- 

 lighted with the book, on dipping into a copy which 

 accidentally fell in his wav, that he straightway 

 purchased ' one for himself, read it with avidity, 

 and has since become a most industrious collector. 

 The other instance was that of one of our most 

 popular metropolitan clergymen, who, having had 

 occasion to refer to the book for the elucidation of 

 some passage of Scripture relating to insects, was 

 so deeply interested in what he read, that he pub- 

 licly recommended the work from the pulpit, with 

 a warmth of commendation which somewhat sur- 

 prised his hearers." — Titan, Nov., 1857. 



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