.50 ENTOMOLOGICAL EXCURSION. 



of human genius. We could not trust ourselves to undertake 

 the task of reviewing this work in a single article ; and have 

 persuaded our talented friend Mr. Doubleday, to give, in a 

 series of articles, a sketch of its contents. The first of these 

 will be found in the present number, and will, we are confi- 

 dent, be received with pleasure by our readers, as no trans- 

 lation has yet appeared in England, except some garbled ones 

 executed for an illiterate bookmaker, by some person evi- 

 dently unacquainted with his subject. 



Art. IX. — An Entomological Excursion, By Edward 

 Doubleday and Edward Newman. 



Not only the success, but the pleasure of the entomologist, 

 are so much under the influence of the weather, that it is next 

 to impossible to give any thing like a correct diary of a three 

 weeks' expedition of this kind without a constant allusion to 

 this important subject : we shall therefore offer no apology for 

 making these notes a journal of weather as well as of entomo- 

 logical captures : and if the frequent repetition of the word 

 ' rain' become at last tiresome, our reader will be kind enough to 

 recollect how much more tiresome it must have been to those 

 who were constantly exposed to its effects. 



To begin our narrative with due formality and precision, we 

 started outside the Worcester Mail at twenty-five minutes past 

 seven, p.m., on the 4th of June, 1832 : we occupied the roof-seat, 

 side by side : the wind was SS.W., and a mild rain was falling, 

 which continued until we reached Worcester, being about 

 fourteen hours. After breakfasting at W^orcester, we resumed 

 our seat : the rain had ceased ; and the sun gleamed at intervals 

 weak and watery, on our progress. The country between 

 Knightsford-bridge and Bromyard-down is at all times beau- 

 tiful : but now, clad in the bright green of spring — for summer 

 had not reached this country, the oak and the ash being scarcely 

 in leaf — the richness and beauty of the scenery far exceeded 

 the powers of an entomologist to describe. The respite from 

 rain lasted about two hours: it then returned; and we sate 

 silent, dripping, weary, mopish, sleepy and uncomfortable, until 



