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considerable portion of tlie agricultural popula- 

 tion of the vfeald and other woodland parts of 

 the county are engaged at this period of the year. 

 The operation of " rinding '' cannot be attempted 

 until the sap has begun to flow. Then myriads 

 of minute insects, which have hibernated in the 

 deepest recesses of the bark, are roused from their 



find a single species honoured with as many titles as a 

 German Prince, the signification of which — when, in- 

 deed, they signify anything — is frequently derived 

 from some imaginary attribute or peculiarity. 



The object of our researches, and of all communica- 

 tions on this and kindred subjects, ought to be to dis- 

 cover truth, not to propagate error ; to diftuse science, 

 not to disseminate barbarism; and so far from en- 

 couraging the country people in retaining their incom- 

 prehensible misnomers, we should take every oppor- 

 tunity of setting them right, pointing out the salient 

 dift'erences of species, and fixing the proper English 

 names in their minds. We might often derive much 

 useful and valuable information from such people as 

 fishermen, shepherds, woodmen, and gamekeepers 

 which will be either lost to us, or rendered worse than 

 useless, if we are constantly in danger of being misled 

 by gross confusion of names ; and this confusion would 

 be even worse confounded, if the usual designations, ac- 

 cepted and established by competent authority, should 

 be misapplied to other species than those to which such 

 authority has assigned them. 



