The flood of Coleopterous matter having this year subsided, 

 the Annual appears more in its usual form. 



The chapter in memory of the late Carl von Heyden 

 being now completed, we shall next year devote some pages 

 to the Entomological labours of that great American Micro- 

 Lepidopterist, Dr. Brackenridge Clemens, by whose un- 

 timely death our favourite science has suffered a grievous 

 loss. From him we expected much. 



The recent visits of the American Entomologists, Messrs. 

 Grote and Robinson, to Europe, where after leaving London 

 they spent many weeks visiting various parts of the Conti- 

 nent and making the personal acquaintance of most of our 

 leading Entomologists, — and the Entomological tour now in 

 progress by the Russian Lepidopterist, Baron von Nolcken, 

 including Stettin, Meseritz, Berlin, Brunswick, Hanover, 

 London, Epping, Wiesbaden, Frankfort, Ziirich, Cannes, 

 Munich, Ratisbon, Vienna, Prague, Brieg, Breslau, Dres- 

 den, &c., — are full of promise for Entomological science. 



The contact of mind with mind, and man with man, 

 elicits sparks of truth that otherwise might long be latent. 



