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The subject of Insect Architecture, to which this 

 volume is devoted, forms only one division, though a 

 most interesting and important one, of that branch of 

 natural history which relates to insects. It presents 

 some of the most striking views of their economy, 

 and, as we have endeavoured to render the exam- 

 ples of extraordinary instinct with which it abounds 

 obvious and familiar to every reader, it precedes 

 somewhat naturally a more minute account of the 

 physiological part of the science of Entomology, and 

 of the benefits and injuries produced to man by in- 

 sects, in the respective stages of their existence. The 

 present volume is complete in itself; and we hope 

 that few will peruse it without having their attention 

 awakened, and their curiosity gratified. It is in- 

 tended, however, to follow it up by a second volume, 

 to be entitled Insect Transformations. The same 

 mode of illustration will be adopted in this projected 

 work as in the present volume; and it is expected 

 that the two will form a tolerably complete view, for 

 all popular objects, of the Natural History of Insects. 



