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THE PLEASURES OF ENTOMOLOGY. 

 (By the Editor.) 



" He who can make two ears of corn grow where onlv one 

 grew before, becomes a benefactor to his race," and this 

 would be equally true were man devoid of intellect ; — to feed 

 the mind is a more noble employment than to feed the body, 

 and he who can produce two ideas where only one previously 

 existed has rendered good service. Now Entomology will 

 furnish new ideas to many who are woefully in want of 

 them. 



Entomology is the study of insects; insects are living 

 beings "fearfully and wonderfully made;" to be studied 

 they must be collected and observed. 



The pleasures of the collector of insects, even of the mere 

 collector, are of a high order — compare them with the plea- 

 sures of the collector of coins, or the collector of auto- 

 graphs, &c. ; the collector of insects, however he may 

 enrich his collection by specimens received from others, 

 will still make the larger part of his collection himself; most 

 of the specimens will be his own captures, and the sight of 

 them will remind him of the place of capture: the sloping 

 down, with its short, slippery turf; the country lane, with its 

 tangled hedges, where honeysuckle and bramble help to bind 

 in friendly harmony the hazel, the dogwood and the oak ; 

 the sandy heath, where it was so baking hot in the sun, but 

 where at evening the purple heather was perfectly swarming 



