To COIIRESPOHDENTS. 



The change suggested by Typogkaphus has long been in 

 contemplation. As to the gross errors he talks of, they amount 

 to the printing of a instead of .r, and of + instead of x . Upon the 

 whole, we doubt whether any work of similar miscellaneous con- 

 tents is more accurately printed than the late Numbers of this 

 Journal. 



We are much obliged by the ingenious suggestions of our Cor- 

 respondent at Ashburton. We request that he will again atten- 

 tively peruse the paper in our Journal to which he adverts, and the 

 more extended work there quoted: we think he will then find the 

 principal part of his plan anticipated. 



We have in vain endeavoured to decipher the " Observations 

 on Defensive Fortification." 



We cannot reprint extracts from other Journals of an old date, 

 to the amount required in the papers with which we have been 

 favoured from Wexford ; but shall be happy to receive any new 

 information, or practical details upon the subject of the Rev. Mr. 

 Rice's letter. 



Crito Edinensis has our thanks, and shall be attended to, 

 but we cannot submit to the mofio which he proposes. 



T» ^£» |Li«9£iv, xf^ y^P "■aflfii', is not an apt quotation for the case 

 in question. Does S pretend to say there is no science in ^Icdi- 

 cinc .'' or what is his object ? 



S. evinces much spirit of observation. The insect to which 

 he alludes, is probably the Staphi/linus riparius of Linnaeus. There 

 arc at least 300 species of the same Linnaean genus, that fold up 

 their wings in a similar manner under short Elytra, or wing cases. 

 We observe the same tiling in the Forjiciila, or earwig, of which 

 S. will find an interesting account in Adams on the Microscope. 

 Our correspondent should persevere in his observations on the 

 CEconomy of Insects ; he has before him an incxhauslible field of 

 useful amusement. 



