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VERY lover of entomology doffs his cap at 

 the name of Latreille, to whom, with one 

 voice, the most competent judges have 

 done homage as "facile princeps ento- 

 mologorum." This " new and brilliant genius," 

 whose indefatigable labours and singular talents 

 threw more light over the science he loved than 

 those of all his predecessors, was born at Brives, in 

 the department of Correze, on the 29th November 

 1762. His parents were of an honourable family, 

 but he was early deprived by death of their care, 

 and apparently they left but very slender means of 

 subsistence for the education of their orphan child. 

 Indeed, he himself says that he seemed born to 

 misfortune and obscurity. How often in the his- 

 tory of men of genius do we meet with similar 

 examples. But Providence happily raised up for 

 him devoted friends and protectors ; and the attrac- 



