152 IMPORTANT NEW WORKS ON ENTOMOLOGY. 



Another point on which the deficiency of our printed 

 information respecting British Butterflies is very striking, 

 is their geographical distribution. All the old localities are 

 carefully brought forward here, though many of them have 

 been long deserted by the respective species ; and, on the 

 other hand, localities where species not of general occur- 

 rence are still continuously taken, are unnoticed and un- 

 recorded. Would that each Entomologist would prepare a 

 list of the Butterflies occurring in his own locality, noting 

 their times of appearance, and any peculiarity of habit, and, 

 where possible, the food-plant and habit of the larva ! At 

 small trouble to each individual, an idea of the distribution 

 of each species might be satisfactorily obtained, and increased 

 stimulus given to the study of the British Butterflies. -—j&rfiVor 

 of The Entomologist'' s Annual. 



HINTS to STUDENTS of ENTOMOLOGY, or of 



other Branches of Natural History (extracted from the 

 Papers relating to the Re-organization of the Civil Service). 



"Without steady application a long course of study cannot 

 be mastered, and nothing is more certain than that habitual 

 diligence brings other virtues in its train; for instance, tem- 

 perance and self-control, to say nothing of punctuality and 

 accuracy — yet even these latter have a real connection with 

 truth and honesty." — Rev. Charles Graves, DD. 



" Any one who looks around him will, I think, see that 

 the public mind is now educating itself, rather according to 

 a scientific than a literary type, and that the great element v 

 in the social progress which is going on around us is not 

 literature but science." 



" I have called to mind the names of six men in London 

 who, by their labours for the advancement of science, have, 

 it appears to me, exercised a greater influence on the popular 



