INTRODUCTORY ADDRESS. 



We are sure that we cannot preface the Fourth Volume of 

 the Entomological Magazine with any thing half so agreeable 

 to the Entomologists of Great Britain as the information 

 embodied in the foregoing Minutes. We never felt a more 

 unmixed pleasure than we now experience in publishing a 

 series of Resolutions which, we proudly feel, do honour to 

 the little Association from which they emanate ; and, at the 

 same time, must contribute effectually and permanently to the 

 advancement of the science of Entomology. 



The Entomologists of this country have, for a number of 

 years, been indebted solely to the liberality of individuals for 

 the opportunity of comparing their captures with the regularly 

 arranged and accurately named collections of those gentlemen 

 on whom they had, generally, no claim, and to whom it was 

 seldom in their power to make any adequate return. We 

 need scarcely call the attention of our readers to the liberality 

 of Mr. Stephens and Mr. Curtis in this respect. It is not 

 to be expected that the collection of the Entomological Club 

 can, at the outset, vie either in extent or in accuracy of 

 nomenclature with the collections of Messrs. Stephens and 

 Curtis, on which large sums of money, and almost an infinity 

 of labour, have been expended ; but it is no light matter to 

 be able to assert that it already contains a greater number of 

 species of British Insects than are named in Mr. Stephen's 

 Catalogue, or Mr. Curtis's Guide. It will be an obvious inter- 

 ference with the duties of a Curator to enter into further detail 

 here ; we can only say that, as throughout the debates on the 

 question of the establishment of this collection, the advance of 

 Entomology in this country has been the single object kept in 

 view; so we hope our brother entomologists will, in the same 



