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LIST OF ENTOMOLOGICAL WORKS. 



possible," &c. — one, aPrionus- 

 the ghost of an insect." 



says; about 150 fragments, in short, 

 of what was once a collection of 

 5,435 specimens, the number ori- 

 ginally deposited " safely" in the 

 British Museum.* 



6. (This, I presume, is intended 

 for the mortal stab.) 



" Mr. Swainson seems incapable of 

 forming a just conception of the pe- 

 culiar genius or merits of the men 

 whom he attempts to describe. 

 Pliny, without doubt one of the 

 most learned men of antiquity ; — 

 Pliny, the very type of Encyclo- 

 paedists ; — Pliny, whose works con- 

 tain, as he himself informs us, 

 extracts from more than 2,000 vo- 

 lumes ; is characterised by Mr. 

 Swainson as deficient in — what do 

 you suppose, gentle reader ? — in 

 erudition ! We fear (?) Mr. Swain- 

 son might have sought for this defi- 

 ciency nearer home." 



6. " His (Pliny's) voluminous works 

 rather show us a compilation of 

 other men's thoughts and discoveries, 

 than a selection of well-digested in- 

 formation or of original research. 

 Amidst all the polished graces of dic- 

 tion, great and diversified erudition, 

 and no inaptitude for occasionally 

 describing with clearness and pre- 

 cision, we look in vain for the power- 

 ful genius and the originality of his 

 great master Aristotle ; and we at 

 once perceive that Natural Historj', 

 under the Romans, had made a 

 retrograde movement." — Prel. Dis. 

 p. 8. 



Art. X. — List of Entomological Works. 



1. British Entomology ; by John Curtis. Nos. 133 and 

 134, January and February, 1835. 



2. Illustrations of British Entomology ; by J. F. Stephens. 

 Nos. LXIX. to LXXI. 



3. A Manual of Entomology, from the German of Dr. Her- 

 mann Burmeister ; by W. E. ShucJcard, M. E. S. With 

 Original Notes and additional Plates. No. I. Price Is. — 

 We have received the first number of this useful work, of 

 which we venture to say, that it will materially extend the 



" Mr. Swainson has communicated to the Editor a little anecdote belonging 

 to this subject: — In the year 1817, long before the present Zoologists of the 

 British Museum (excepting Mr. Koenig) came there, I assisted my friend, 

 Dr. Leach, one day, in picking out these "ghosts" of the Sloanean Collection, 

 (then deposited in tlie dark under-ground vaults,) from among hundreds, nay, 

 thousands, that were even then reduced to dust." And yet this writer takes 

 upon himself to inform Mr. Swainson upon his own personal acts I 



