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  New 
  Species 
  of 
  Californian 
  Coleoptera. 
  

  

  the 
  Colorado, 
  for 
  the 
  great 
  assistance 
  afforded 
  me 
  in 
  the 
  pro- 
  

   secution 
  of 
  my 
  researches 
  : 
  assistance 
  without 
  which, 
  in 
  the 
  

   present 
  condition 
  of 
  California, 
  superhuman 
  industry 
  might 
  

   have 
  been 
  expended, 
  without 
  producing 
  any 
  useful 
  results. 
  

  

  Whatever 
  my 
  labors 
  may 
  add 
  to 
  our 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  

   laws 
  of 
  nature, 
  as 
  exemplified 
  in 
  California, 
  is 
  justly 
  attri- 
  

   butable 
  to 
  the 
  sympathy 
  in 
  intellectual 
  pursuits 
  found 
  among 
  

   these 
  gentlemen, 
  in 
  a 
  country 
  which 
  has 
  done 
  more 
  to 
  debase 
  

   men 
  by 
  materialising 
  influences, 
  than 
  any 
  other 
  country 
  ever 
  

   settled 
  by 
  the 
  Europic 
  race. 
  

  

  