xl . PREFACE. 
reality emanating from his genius alone: entomologists have 
not often been also poets. Mr. Newman continued to contribute 
freely in succeeding volumes, writing under various pseudonyms 
—‘‘Corderius Secundus,” ‘‘E. N. D.,” ‘‘ Rusticus,”’ and others,— 
as well as in his own name. The five volumes of the ‘ Entomo- 
logical Magazine’ give the reader a more intimate personal 
acquaintance with him than any of his books or subsequent 
writings. It was, perhaps, a feature in his journalism that he 
and his readers became at once acquaintances, and after a while 
actual friends ; indeed, many who made his friendship through 
his writings never saw him, yet have felt his loss as keenly as 
though they had been constantly in his society. In addition to 
the members of the Club the following well-known scientific 
men were amongst the contributors to the magazine :—Messrs. 
Babington, Dale, Douglas, Haliday, Hewitson, Shuckard, 
J. F. Stephens, Swainson, Waterhouse, Westwood, and Yarrell, 
all of whom were more or less personal friends. Edward 
Doubleday was Editor of the second volume, Mr. Newman of the 
other four. 
It was in 1832 that Mr. Newman’s first important publication 
appeared,—a demy 8vo. pamphlet of 56 pp., entitled, ‘Sphinx 
vespiformis: an Essay ;’ with the motto :— 
* All are but parts of one stupendous whole, 
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.” 
This clever attempt at classification created a considerable stir, 
and met with strenuous opposition. 
In the year 1833 he was elected a fellow of the Linnean 
Society; and in the same year he took an active part in 
establishing the Entomological Society of London, which 
Society may be said in great measure to have sprung from 
the Entomological Club, then of the respectable age of seven 
years. He was elected a member of the first council; Mr. 
Kirby, honorary President; and Mr. Children, President. 
During the succeeding years, in addition to editorial work, he 
wrote occasionally in the ‘Magazine of Natural History,’ and 
contributed various papers to the above Societies. 
In the year 1835 the ‘Grammar of Entomology’ was pub- — 
lished; a most useful little book. ‘The author supposes his — 
reader utterly ignorant of Entomology, and endeavours to show 
