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fardeau du pouvoir, soulageant du souci des affaires penibles, 

 faisant oublier jusques ^l la misere, consolant du malheur 

 d'une trop grande renommee, — quelle adversite ne diminue-t- 

 elle pas ? " I am, yours most truly, 



A. 

 Colchester, Mcnj, 1S33. 



Art. XLV. — Establishment of the Entomological Society 

 of London. 



Nothing more clearly demonstrates the increasing taste for 

 a particular science than the establishment of a separate and 

 distinct society for the accommodation of its advocates. It 

 was thought a very unnecessary step when the Linnaean 

 Society first associated itself as distinct from the Royal ; again 

 the Geological and Zoological Societies had many wise heads 

 shaken at them, many opinions passed on their probably 

 ephemeral existence; yet all these societies, notwithstanding 

 manifold evil predictions, exist and flourish : why then should 

 we not have an Entomological Society? The objects of the 

 Royal Society are too multifarious, of the Linnaean too phy to- 

 logical, of the Geological too inanimate, and of the Zoological 

 too vertebrate, for an entomologist to attend either with the 

 slightest hope of meeting with his congeners. Under these 

 circumstances it was deemed expedient to propose an Entomo- 

 logical Society, the objects of which should be the holding of 

 periodical meetings for the reception and reading of papers 

 connected with the subject ; the publication from time to time 

 of such papers as the Society or its council may consider 

 worthy of publication ; the forming a library and collection for 

 the use of the members ; and the general promotion of the 

 science of entomology in all its branches ; — objects in every 

 respect so praiseworthy, that we feel the most lively satisfac- 

 tion in giving the Society all the publicity and assistance in 

 our power, and in heartily recommending our friends at once 

 to enrol their names as members, — a recommendation they will 

 be the more willing to attend to when they see the names of 



