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advantages and opportunities that cannot fall to 

 the lot of others. To promote this object, the 

 following instructions have been rendered as 

 explicit as the nature of the subject would per- 

 mit; and more particularly, that gentlemen 

 may be enabled to instruct their servants, and 

 especially the natives of the country where they 

 reside, to collect the Insects and Crustacea 

 which we are about to enumerate. 



It may not be improper to allude, in this 

 place, to the great benefit this department of 

 Zoology has derived from the labours of Messrs, 

 Bowditch, Burchell, Cranch, and Ritchie, in 

 Africa ; of Sir Stamford Raffles, Gen. Hard- 

 wicke, and Dr. Horsfield, in Asia ; and of Mr. 

 Brown, Capt. King, and Mr. Hunter) in New 

 Holland ; as the interesting novelties afforded 

 by the various collections of these gentlemen, 

 while they cannot fail to engage the attention of 

 the lover of entomology, hold out an attractive 

 promise of the rich harvest yet to be gleaned in 

 countries, which teem with the wonderful pro- 

 ductions of Nature. 



The entomological specimens received from 

 America have been chiefly contributed by gen- 

 tlemen who have resided but a short time in the 

 country, and whose excursions in search of in- 



