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mation on such subjects will be sure to engage the especial 

 interest of our brother naturalists at home. To ourselves also 

 as cultivating the true science of Entomology, such observa- 

 tions, if accurately made, will be invaluable for purposes of 

 Classification. 



I will only now add that Papers at our Meetings will also 

 be very acceptable, which may treat of the external and internal 

 anatomy of insects, their commercial uses and the remedies for 

 the various injuries which some of them inflict on man. It 

 must be borne in mind, however, that while these last are 

 subjects of research, that require on the part of the investigator, 

 no great proficiency in Nomenclature or Classification, they 

 nevertheless absolutely demand that he should have some 

 acquaintance with what has been previously efiected in such 

 branches of Entomology. Of this, up to the year 1826, an able 

 compendium may be found in the pages of Kii'dby and Spence. 

 Were I to attempt to offer you a similar compendium of 

 what has been done since the publication of their work, I 

 should have to refer to a multitude of books ; since of late 

 years the comparative Anatomy of Insects, for instance, has 

 attracted very considerable attention, particulai-ly on the Conti- 

 nent of Europe, as may be seen by the numerous able Papers 

 published in the " Annales des Sciences Naturelles." 



