ENTOMOLOGICAL PUKSUITS. 23 



luxuriate ' for months upon my table. They do irot 

 \\ant careful planting, or close attention, or even 



'Like their earthly sisters, pine for drought,' 



but are strong and hardy, like the pretty wild 

 flowers that adorn our fields and hedge-rows. In 

 the pages of an album, I can, if so disposed, feast 

 my eyes for years upon their graceful forms, whilst 

 their colours will remain as bright as when first 

 transplanted from their native haunts by the sea 

 shore. 



The entomologist delights to stroll in the forest 

 and the field, to hear the pleasant chirp of the 

 cricket in the bladed grass, to watch the honey 

 people bustling down in the blue bells, or even to 

 net the butterfly as it settles on the sweet pea- 

 blossom, while I am content to ramble along the 

 beach, and watch the ebb and flow of the restless sea 



4 So fearful in its spleeny humours bent, 

 So lovely in repose' 



or search for nature's treasures among the weed-clad 

 rocks left bare by the receding tide. 



A disciple of the above mentioned branch of 

 natural history will dilate with rapture upon the 

 wondrous transformations which many of his favourite 

 insects undergo. But none that he can show sur- 

 passes in grandeur and beauty the changes which are 

 witnessed in many members of the marine animal 

 kingdom. He points to the leaf, to the bloom upon 

 the peach, brings his microscoDe and bids me peer in, 



