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met with from all classes of entomologists, not only renders its continuance 

 in future years a matter of certainty, but has rendered it necessary to bring 

 out a second edition of that 'for 1855.' * 



" I hope that the increase in the size of this edition will not render the 

 purchasers of the first edition dissatisfied with their bargains; as the 

 chapters added are quite elementary, they are comparatively useless to the 

 ( old hands ;' yet if any one feels himself aggrieved in this matter, if he 

 wishes it, I shall be happy to give him a copy of the second edition in 

 exchange for his copy of the first." 



We need only remark on this quotation, that we rejoice to find that 

 public opinion has so substantially confirmed our original estimate of the 

 work, and that we have little doubt that our author's very liberal offer of 

 exchange will suffice to allay any feeling that might arise alien to that of 

 the delectable contentment whose charms he has ably depicted in his 

 address to the young. 



The only addition to the number of species noted will be found among 

 the macrolepidoptera, at p. 32, but this is balanced by the unfortunate 

 necessity of laying aside one of the new eoleoptera figured, Lathrobium 

 carinatum (vide p. 123); this seems to have been previously described on 

 the Continent, and,, moreover, to have occurred (for the first time ia 

 Britain) near Dublin, where it was taken by Mr. Haliday many years 

 since. Among the additions, however, none of the entertaining chapters 

 proposed in the preface to the first edition have yet appeared ; nor can 

 we regret their absence, seeing that the only apparent justification to their 

 introduction namely, the unpopularity of a strictly scientific book of the 

 kind has been dissipated by the rapid and unexpected sale of the first 

 edition. 



The proposal (put forward in the new preface) to publish a list of ento- 

 mologists' names and addresses, is one which will bear timely consideration 

 before it is earned into effect. If it were to include all who would consent 

 to supply their names, &c. though, on the one side, it would be no small 

 convenience to the younger collectors to know how, where, and when to 

 address for information their more exalted brethren, it might, on the other, 

 tend to develop and encourage a morbid love of notoriety, very far wide of 

 the true motives upon which the study of nature should be undertaken and 

 pursued. Should it, therefore, in this, as in other matters, appear advan- 

 tageous to follow in the steps of our continental brethren, who regularly 

 publish such lists, our opinion is that the English list should not include 

 any names but those which have already appeared in some of the pe- 

 riodicals, or before some of the learned societies of the day. 



