AN 



INTRODUCTION 



TO 



E N T O M O L O G Y 



LETTER I. 



Dear Sir, 



X CANNOT wondertliat an active mind like yours should 

 experience no small degree of tedium in a situation so 

 far removed, as you represent your new residence to 

 be, from "the busy hum of men." Nothing certainly 

 can compensate for the want of agreeable society; but 

 since your case in this respect admits of no remedy but 

 patience, I am glad you are desirous of turning your 

 attention to some pursuit which may amuse you in the 

 intervals of severer study, and in part supply the void 

 of which you complain. I am not a little flattered that 

 you wish to be informed which class in the three king- 

 doms of nature is, in my opinion, most likely to answer 

 your purpose ; at the same time intimating that you 

 feel inclined to give the preference tb Entomology, 

 provided some objections can be satisfactorily obvi. 

 ated, which you have been accustomed to regard as 

 urged with a considerable semblance of reason against 

 the cultivation of that science. 



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