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These few facts may be sufficient to prove, 

 that, so far from entomology being a frivo- 

 lous amusement, (as some have ignorantly as- 

 serted) or suffering in importance by com- 

 parison with other studies, it deserves, what 

 it will one day attain, to stand in the very 

 foremost rank of Natural Science ! For it 

 furnishes more links, perhaps, than any other 

 Science, to prove the existence of 



" The mighty chain of beings, lessening down 

 From Infinite Perfection to the brink 

 Of dreary Nothing, desolate abyss !" 



" Organized nature is a complicated chain 

 of beings, of which chain, each species forms 

 a link. Every new species added to our list, 

 serves thus to increase our knovv ledge of this 

 stupendous system — a system that ought to 

 excite in every breast the most intense inter- 

 est ; not merely as one of the works of our 

 Creator, but as that particular work of 

 the Divine Hand, which has been designed 

 with direct reference to ourselves. A minute 



