172 NEW WORKS ON ENTOMOLOGY. 



INTRODUCTION TO ENTOMOLOGY ; or, Ele- 

 ments of the Natural History of Insects. Com- 

 prising an Account of Noxious and Useful Insects ; 

 of their Metamorphoses, Food, Stratagems, So- 

 cieties, Motions, Hybernation, Instinct, &c. By 

 William Kirby, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., Rector of Bar- 

 ham ; and William Spence, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S. 

 Seventh Edition, with an Appendix relative to the Origin 

 and Progress of the Work. In one closely printed Volume 

 of 607 pages. Crorvn Svo. price 5s. Cloth. London: 



Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. 



In the volume before us we find prefixed the following note. 



" This work is now published at one-sixth of the price of the 

 sixth edition, so as to bring it within the reach of all desirous of 

 becoming acquainted with the Natural History of Insects, and 

 thus carrying out more effectually the object of the authors, — that 

 of introducing others to a branch of science which they have 

 found so delightful. Though compressed by a smaller type into 

 one volume, it contains every" line of the sixth edition, which in- 

 cluded much new matter not in the five preceding editions ; and 

 to render the work more complete, the account of its origin and 

 progress, furnished by Mr. Spence to the Life of Mr. Kirby by 

 Mr. Freeman, is. with his permission, given as an Appendix." 



From a notice in the Natural History Review for 1856, p. 51 

 (which we are inclined to attribute to the pen of Mr. Patterson, 

 of Belfast, whose " Zoology for Schools" already enjoys a cir- 

 culation of eighteen thousand), we extract the following : — "No 

 work in the English language we believe has done more than 

 Kirbv and Spence's learned and popular Introduction to spread 

 the taste for Natural History at home, and to extend for it the 

 sphere of observation, from the more conspicuous but limited field 

 which the Vertebrata affords, to the countless species, and more 

 varied history, transformations and instincts, of the Annulata, and 

 thence indirectly to all the lower forms of animal life. Nor has 

 its popularity been limited to one tongue or country, but either 

 through the medium of translations, or by the obvious influence 

 which it has exercised, ever since, over the most esteemed ele- 

 mentary books in other European languages, the influence given has 

 been propagated extensively in a widening circle. In noticing this 

 new edition, however, it is with home readers we have to do, and 



