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aware, is very high praise, but it is praise which no one 

 can say is unmerited. The philosophical spirit is manifested 

 equally in the masterly characters given of every genus and 

 species, and in the explanatory remarks which invariably 

 follow each description; and I must not omit to add, that 

 these descriptions and remarks are invaluable to the British 

 Coleopterist, because a large proportion of the genera de- 

 scribed, and cited for comparison, are familiar to us as indi- 

 genous to Britain." — Address of the President of the Ento- 

 mological Society of London, January, 1855. 



Mr. Wollaston, who has again started for Madeira, with 

 the intention of prosecuting his Entomological studies in 

 those islands, around which his book has shed a halo of En- 

 tomological glory, when almost on the eve of starting fur- 

 nished us, at our request, with the " Instructions in Collect- 

 ing and Preserving Coleoptera," given at p. 101 of this 

 Annual ; and we trust that many of the readers of those " In- 

 structions" will feel a desire to make further acquaintance 

 with the Author, and we are satisfied that all who, acting 

 upon that feeling, once obtain a sight of the " Insecta Made- 

 rensia," will be anxious to possess it. It is unfortunate, in 

 one respect, that the work is so well got up, for though pub- 

 lished at an uriremunerative price, it is still far too expensive 

 for the pockets of ordinary Entomologists. Judging from 

 the appearance of the book, with its large quarto pages of 

 goodly paper and broad margins, with clear type, we should 

 say it was specially designed for the same class of read- 

 ers who so greedily devoured " Childe Harold," when it 

 appeared in a similar form ; but are there, among these 

 higher classes, any readers of Entomological works? That 

 is certainly the problem which Mi*. Wollaston's book will 

 solve; it will not reach those who now can appreciate its 

 value: will it, by its attractive exterior, engage the attention 

 of others who may by it be won to a love of Entomology? 



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