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Another important matter will be to introduce in its 
place, and as nearly as possible in the words of the original 
writer, the natural history of any species which has long 
ago been fully given by Reaumur, DeGeer, &c., and which, 
though long since thus recorded, has been overlooked by 
subsequent writers, from the difficulty of satisfactorily 
identifying the nameless species for which it was intended. 
Where previous authors have mixed together as belong- 
ing to one species observations applying to several species, 
care will be taken to separate these several remarks, show- 
ing to which species each belongs. 
The letter-press will be in Four languages, English, 
French, German and Latin, so that the volumes will be 
intelligible to the collectors of England, France and Ger- 
many, whether linguists or not; the impediment of a foreign 
language in a work of this kind is ever found an obstacle 
to its wide circulation, and he who describes in Latin 
writes only for the scientific few, not for the unlearned 
many, whom it is desirable to attract to the study. 
The price of the volumes will be made as low as possible, 
and little more than the expense of colouring the Plates. 
But as even this moderate sum might put the work 
beyond the reach of many a hard-working Collector, the 
Editor proposes to present a Copy of the entire Series to 
~ every one who shall first discover and communicate to him 
the Transformations of Twenty Species of TinEina, with 
which the Editor was previously unacquainted. 
The Volumes will be published under the superintend- 
ence of a Committee, consisting of 
Mr. J. W. Dovatas, 6, Kingswood Place, Lee; 
Mr. H.T. Srarnron, Mountsfield, Lewisham; and 
Mr. W. Wina, 17, Priory Road, South Lambeth. 
All Communications to be addressed to the Editor, Mr. 
H. T. Srarntron, Mountsfield, Lewisham. 
** Parties wishing to subscribe to the first Ten Volumes, at 7s. 6d. 
each volume, are requested to forward their names to some Member 
of the Committee. 
It is proposed to publish one or two volumes annually; the first 
volume before the close of the present year. 
January 14th, 1854. 
