KIRBY AND SPENCE, THE ENTOMOLOGISTS. Vil 
heads, or intestines. They look as comfortable when impaled on a 
pin, and stuck into a pill-box, as in their native element. At Jeast 
they make love, and eat each other ; and what more is wanted to prove 
that they are happy? Some mites will live in alcohol. Caterpillars 
may be frozen to the hardness of a stone, and yet revive. Many resist 
drowning for a long time; and Lord Bute has said, that in the boiling 
springs of Albano, there were not only conferve living, but black 
beetles, which died on being taken out and plunged into cold water. 
We might extend to a great length an account of the contents of 
our author’s “ Introduction to Entomology,” and by every paragraph 
show more convincingly the interest and importance which belong to 
the subject, and the distinguished station these gentlemen hold as cul- 
tivators of the science. But our edition of the ‘‘ Animal Kingdom” 
affords abundant instances of the estimation in which their labours and 
authority are regarded by us; and therefore a more lengthened or 
minute account of their contributions to Natural History does not 
seem called for in this sketch. Were we writing a memoir or life of 
our authors it would be requisite to enumerate their other works, and 
bestow some observations upon them. Mr. Kirby’s ‘* Monographia 
Apum Anglice,” and papers by both, frequently to be met with in the 
Transactions of certain learned or scientific Societies, would have to be 
examined. But it is as entomologists that we speak of them, and ento- 
mologists as set forth in their great and professedly principal work—a 
work that still stands pre-eminent in the department to which it be- 
longs, that we have here solely regarded them. 
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