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duties in Paternoster Row. Complaints followed, and tlirde 

 times was he dismissed, the last time for ever. Shnckard 

 now went to reside at Brighton with his father, who resolved 

 upon starting him there as a bookseller, but he was anxious 

 that his son should acquire a knowledge of the German 

 book trade ; he therefore sent hini to one of the first firms in 

 Germany (I think in Frankfort). Here Sluickard remained 

 some time, after which he was to begin life as a bookseller. 

 This, however, was not exactly to Shuckard's taste : he 

 thirsted for literary fame. His first essays were as a sort of 

 sub-editor of a Brighton paper ; but his efforts were very 

 intermittent, and having much time on his hands he used to 

 employ it in rambling over the downs, and on one occasion 

 while there, his attention was by mere accident attracted by 

 some insects scrambling up a sandy bank. One of these he 

 caught; it was Cicindela campestris : he admired its beauty, 

 went again and again to the downs, and there, on the sandy 

 banks, saw bees burrowing. His hymenopterons studies 

 dated from these solitary rambles on the Sussex downs. He 

 soon afterwards procured a co])y of Kirby's ' Monographia,' 

 and from this time his whole energies were devoted to H}^- 

 menoptera, and in this branch of Entomology no one has 

 laboured more successfully." Mr. Shuckard's books are as 

 under : — 



Translation of Burmeister's 'Manual of Entomology,' with 

 additions and notes by the Author. London, 1836. 



Essay on the Indigenous Fossorial Hymenoptera of Great 

 Britain. Demy 8vo. 1837. 



Elements of British Entomology. London, Bailliere, 1839. 

 Demy 8vo, with 50 wood-cuts. 



Monograph of the Dorylidaj, published in the 'Annals and 

 Magazine of Natural History,' 1840. 



On the Aulacida), a Family of Hymenoptera Pupivora, 

 pubhshed in the 'Entomologist,' Vol. i. p. 115. June, 1841. 



Coleoptera delineated ; by William Spry ; the letter-press 

 by W. E. Shuckard. 



Essay on the Indigenous Bees of Great Britain. 1867. 



