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advantages of a division of labour are here most manifest, and though the various 

 compilers must, to a certain extent, be allowed to adopt the plan that may, to 

 their individual opinions, seem best, yet the whole will be under the supervision of 

 the Committee, who will endeavour to secure uniformity, so far as that may be 

 practicable. The Catalogue will be synonymic, especially with regard to the names 

 given by British authors, so as to render it serviceable to our continental friends. 

 The scheme having been fairly launched, we wish the co-operators in it every 

 success and — may we add ? — a speedy termination to their labours. 



Departure of Dr. Hagen for America. — Before the present number is in the 

 hands of our readers, Europe will have lost, perhaps for ever, one who has probably 

 done more than any other to facilitate the study of Entomology. Dr. Hagen, late 

 of Konigsberg, is on his way to take charge of the Entomological Collections at 

 Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the invitation of Prof Agassiz. His appointment is 

 at present only provisional, but we scarcely expect that onr 'cute friends on the 

 other side wiU allow him to escape when he shall be once on their soil. 



The late Rev. Hamlet ClarVs collections. — It is with great satisfaction we learn 

 that the Phytophaga and water-beetles amassed by Mr. Clark will not be dispersed. 

 Having become national property, they will serve to swell the collection of the 

 British Museum. 



i^buto. 



Letters Home from Spain, Algeria, and Brazil, during past Entomological Rambles. By 

 the Eev. Hamlet Clark, M.A., F.L.S. Van Voorst, 1867. 



This modest little volume, rendered sadly interesting by the circumstances 

 under which it was published, will doubtless find a corner in the library of every 

 British entomologist ; not so much for any pretension to science (and, indeed, there 

 is no pretension of any kind in it), as for the healthy tone, the unstudied exhibition 

 of energy, and the genuine ring of its contents. " Letters home," however 

 clever they may seem to their recipients, usually fail to make any mark when 

 (as is too often the case) afterwards addressed to the general public. But our 

 entomological public is so limited, that it may — or, at least, should — be considered 

 as a single family ; so that the letters now being noticed are not likely to fail in 

 exciting interest. They contain, moreover, many passages exhibiting a power of 

 rapid perception of scenery and minute details of character ; so that it is evident 

 that their- lamented author could, if such had been his intention, have easily written 

 a book that would have had a far wider range than among his fellow naturalists. 

 Such passages as relate to Entomology only make the reader long for more ; and 

 amongst them the description (p. 152) of the habits of insects of various orders 

 frequenting a certain wounded tree for its sap, and the writer's ponderings upon 

 their ways and instincts, may be mentioned as peculiarly pleasing. 



The book is illustrated by some well-executed lithographic copies of landscapes 

 by J. Gray, Esq., a name well known in connection with those of Messrs. WoUaston 

 and Clark. 



