ADVERTISEMENT. 



THE lively interest taken by the British 

 Public in the promotion of every branch of 

 science, and the numerous Collections of Ob- 

 jects of Natural History that are forming in 

 every part of England, afford a convincing 

 proof of the progress of this delight fid study, 

 and of the very general feeling manifested in 

 its favour. If it should be asked whence 

 this has arisen, we cannot but think that the 

 intercourse with the Continent has, in a great 

 measure, tended to awaken these feelings, and 

 hax naturally excited this laudable curiosity, 

 and stimulated an inquiry into those ivorks of 

 the CREATOR which the most unenlightened 

 cannot behold without admiration and delight. 

 As no branch of Natural History can be pur- 

 sued with so much facility as ENTOMOLOGY, it 

 is hoped that the following directions for col* 

 lecting insects (though brief) will be found 

 useful ',an(d sufficiently explicit : the Author has 

 been induced to publish them first, from the 

 number of applications that have been made to 

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