POPULAR 

 BRITISH ENTOMOLOGY. 



CHAPTER I. 



JANUARY. 



THERE is no branch of Natural History more interesting, 

 and few more within the reach of students, than that of 

 Entomology : none, certainly, in which they will find more 

 abundant proofs of the wisdom and goodness of that great 

 Being, who is equally the Creator of the gigantic whale 

 and the diminutive animacule, of the majestic oak which 

 flourishes a thousand years, and the fleeting ephemera which 

 fulfils its appointed duties, and lays down its little life in the 

 space of a few hours, of the mightiest intellect which ever 

 adorned the world, and the instinct which teaches the parent 

 moth to lay its eggs on that plant which will afford fitting 



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