ENTOMOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE, NOTICES OF 
NEW WORKS, &c. 
(No. III.) 
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ZOOLOGICAL WorKS PUBLISHED UNDER GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE. 
In no one particular do we find the great distinction between 
England and the Continental nations more strikingly illustrated 
than in the publication of works of science, and particularly upon 
Natural History. In England all our finest works have been produced 
either at the cost of individuals, whose purse-strings have been 
opened witha liberal hand by their zeal for the science—witness Mr. 
Lambert’s magnificent work on the genus Pinus, the Lepidoptera 
of Georgia of Abbot and Smith, the Hxotic Insects of Drury, 
the Malacostraca Podopthalma of Dr. Leach—or by the spirited 
exertions of publishers, as in the case of the Translation of the 
Animal Kingdom by Griffith, the splendid works on Ornithology 
by Mr. Gould, or the works on British Entomology by Messrs. 
Curtis and Stephens. With very few exceptions government has 
afforded no assistance to the publication of such works. On 
the Continent, however, the case is entirely reversed, the finest 
works having been produced under the auspices of the respective 
governments of the countries in which they have been published. 
That the direction unquestionably given to the public mind in such 
countries by the course of public education, must have a material 
effect in producing such a result, is unquestionable; nor can we 
expect that the case will be altered here until physical science in 
general, including Natural History as a necessary branch, is fostered 
by the State for her own sake, independent of the shop-keeping 
spirit of the country, and is insisted upon as a branch of public 
education as material as the Classics, Mathematics, &c. * 
* Since the publication of the last number of this work I have had the pleasure of visiting 
Oxford, in company with Professor Burmeister ; but how can [explain the mingled feelings I 
experienced at being compelled to answer his question, ‘‘ Who is the Professor of Zoology 
here ?’’ by informing him that there was no such Professorship in this, the most magnificent 
University in the world—in more forcible language than was employed by Mr. MacLeay upon 
this very subject twenty years ago ? 
“¢ Unfortunately in those classic scenes which derive no small portion of their fame from a 
Ray and a Lister, the existence of Zoology as a science is in these days scarcely suspected. 
Well may the foreigner who beholds our learned establishments so splendidly endowed, note, 
among the most remarkable circumstances attending them, that in none whatever should 
there be a Zoological chair. It is not for me to enter into the causes of this, else it were 
desirable to know why plants should have been deemed worthy of attention, while animals have 
