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the lots fell to Quaritch, one of the best known dealers. Our own i 

 experience at Stevens', some two years ago (when a complete set of 

 Ochsenheimer and Treitschke's Sclmicttryliwie ran Kiimpa woiild have 

 sold to a dealer for 8s., and Guenee's Jlistoirc XatitrcUc, for 10s., but 

 for our joining the bidding at the last moment, and failing to buy 

 against the dealer at £4 10s. and £3 respectively), suggests that there 

 must be a private buying public (or the dealers would not give the 

 high prices they do when there is opposition) that has not sufficient 

 knowledge of the books dealing with our own subject to risk the 

 })urchase of desiderata in the sale rooms, but that will l)uy from a private 

 list if the values can be discussed with a friend beforehand, and the 

 purchase made at leisure. On th(3 other hand some books are so 

 generally well known that they will always fetch an average price, 

 c.(/., Milliere's Iconoi/rajiliic, &c., Avhich went for £'10 5s., and rarely 

 goes above £11 or under £10. Some of the prices strike one as 

 absurdly low, others as about a fau' market value. The following 

 (iBOstly in half -calf) will tell their OAvntale : — Ann. do la SoviHe Kntoui. 

 de Franco, 1832-1892, 60 vols., £35; Ann. dc la Socirtc Kntoiii. dc 

 Beljc, 1857-1892, 34 vols., £6 10s.; Funi. Fntow. ZnUchvift and 

 Dt'i'ttsch. Fntmi. ZeiUchrift, 1857-1887, 30 vols., £4 4s.; Buckler's 

 Larvd' (if the FritisJi Jhittrrriii's and Maths, \o\s. i.-ix., £2 lis., other 

 sets went for £2 17s., £2 19s., £2 19s.; JJidlctino ddla Socicta Fntomo- 

 loi/ira haliana, 1869-1893, £6 5s.; Buckton, Monoi/rajdi of the Fritisli 

 Ajdtidc.s, £2 12s.; Cameron, Monograph of the Fritish Fhi/tojilianoic-i 

 Hi/iiienojitera, 4 vols., £2 lis.; Canadian Fntomoloiiist, 1869-1892, £5 ; 

 Curtis, Bn'tis/i Jvntoiiwloi/i/, £11 5s.; Donoxan, Xatmril Histori/ of 

 Fritish Fisccts, £4 2s. 6d.; Fntouudoijical Mai/azinc, 5 vols., £1 16s.; 

 Tran!>actions of the Kiit. Sor. of Lo»r/o», 1836-1892, £33 ; Froccrdinn^i 

 Kntomoloijical Surictj/ of FliiladcliiJiia, xols. i.-\i., £4; The Kntomolo- 

 (jht, vols, i.-xxv., £4 7s. 6d.; Fntonioloi/ist'ti Montldi/ 2la(iazin(',28 vols., 

 £3 12s. 6d.; J'jitoinoloi/isfs WeeJdij Intclliijcnccf, 10 vols., 14s.; Stettin. 

 Fnt(nii(do(iiscltc Zcituwj, 48 vols., £5 ; Fabricius, Kntnn. Sifstonatira, 5 

 vols., Sjit'cics Inscctonnn, 2 vols., ^Lantissa Inscctonnn, 2 vols., and other 

 books, £1 16s.; Guenee, Hixioire Xatnn-Uc, Sec, 7 vols., 14s. (this appears 

 an absurd price for this useful work) ; Heinemann, Fie Sclniwtt. Fcutsrh- 

 lands, etc., 2 vols., 1859-1877, £1 8s.; Horac Soc. Knt. Fosnicac, 1861- 

 1895, £17 5s.; Latreille, Histoiir Nat. dcs Cntat. ct dcs Inscctes, 14 vols.. 

 Genera Crust, ct Fisectonun, 4 vols., £1 12s.; Limuca Fntoiiudotiira, 16 

 vols., 20s. (this price is quite ununderstandable) ; McLachlan, Mono- 

 ijraidiic Ferision and Si/nojisis of t/ie TricJiojitcra of Fitropc, £2 ; Tlir 

 Fntoinoloi/ist, vol. i., and Bate and Westwood, Fritish Sessilc-ei/ed 

 Crustacea, £1 12s.; Panzer, Insecta (Tennanica, 36 vols., 14s.; Eambur, 

 Catcdoijue Si/s. des TJ'p. de V Andalousie, £1 4s.; Schrank, Fauna lloira, 

 3 vols., Germar, ('(deojitorum Sjiecies, 16s.; Snellen, Fe ] linilers ran 

 Nederland, Microlep., 2 vols., 15s.; Stainton, Xat. Histori/ of the 

 Tincina, 13 vols., £3 3s.; Stephens, Flustrations d/ llrit. Fntomoloiin, 

 11 vols., £1 8s.; Tijdsehrift roor Fntoiiioloi/ie, Sec, 34 vols., £11 15s.; 

 Wiener J'!nto)}i<do(/isclie Zeituni/, 9 vols., £3 10s.; The Zoolotiical Ilecord, 

 28 vols., £7 15s.; 2'he Zoolof/ist, 45 vols., £3 5s.; Albin, Xaiural Histon/ 

 of Fritisli Insects, also Xaiural Histori/ of Senders, 18s.; Ernst and Engra- 

 melle, Pa/nllons (Vhlurojie, &c., 8 vols., £5; Fuessly and others, 

 Archires de VJFtstidre des Jnsectes, 1794, ]'erZ''icJinifis derihiu hek. Schiiciz 

 Insechten, 1775, Histoire Abrq/eedes Insectes de i'«/7'.s, 1762, Si/s. Ver::. der 



