KIRBY AND SI'ENCE, THE ENTOMOLOGISTS. VU 



hnads, or intestines. They look as comfortable when impaled on a 

 pin, and stuck into a pill-box, as in their native element. At least 

 they make love, and eat each other ; and what more is wanted to prove 

 that they are happy ? Some mites will live in alcohol. Caterpillars 

 may be frozen to the hardness of a stone, and yet revive. Many resist 

 drowning for a long time ; and Lord Bute has said, that in the boiling 

 springs of Albano, there were not only conferva; living, but black 

 l)eetles, which died on being taken out and plunged into cold water. 

 We might extend to a great length an account of the contents of 

 our author's " Introduction to Entomology," and by every paragrapli 

 show more convincingly the interest and importance which belong to 

 the subject, and the distinguished station these gentlemen hold as cul- 

 tivators of the science. But our edition of the " Animal Kingdom" 

 affords abundant instances of the estimation in which their labours and 

 authority are regarded by us ; and therefore a yiore lengthened or 

 miniite account of their contributions to Natural History does not 

 seem called for in this sketch. Were we writing a memoir or life of 

 our authors it would be requisite to enumerate their other works, and 

 bestow some observations upon them. Mr. Kirby's " Monographia 

 Apum Anglica?," and pajjcrs by both, frequently to be met with in the 

 Transactions of certain learned or scientific Societies, would have to be 

 examined. But it is as entomologists that we speak of them, and ento- 

 mologists as set forth in their great and professedly principal work — a 

 work that still stands pre-eminent in the department to which it be- 

 longs, that we have here solely regarded them. 



