40 Notes on the Distribution of Insects^ &fc. 



reminiscences of past kindness, friendship and pleasures, and forms 

 a liappy bond of union and sympathy between fiiends and ac- 

 quaintances of tlie past. Should not this, then, be a strong in- 

 centive to the study of the Science of Nature, that in the prosecu- 

 tion thereof^ we form the acquaintance of those who are treading- 

 the same paths, and likewise establish among them friendships 

 always delightful and ever permanent ? Can it be said so of this 

 world ? Can the man who has satiated his desires with its enjoy- 

 ments say, that its pleasures are sweet, or its friendships enduring ? 

 Has he not already discovered that these pleasures are vain empti- 

 ness, and these friendships but of a day ? and did he look back 

 and take a lesson from the past, he would know that those who 

 have gone before him, have sunk within the gTave to be remem- 

 bered no more — to be forgotten even by those who have been the 

 constant recipients of his kindness and favors. On the other hand,, 

 the man of Science feels himself knit with the souls and minds of 

 his fellow-laborers, who can appreciate his talents and his tastes 

 — whose delight is to extend to him the warm hands of fellow- 

 ship in life, and after death to cherish his name in fond remem- 

 brance. 



Botany has still a higher claim upon our study and attention 

 than those already indicated. It forms no small portion of that 

 great Volume of Nature which, when studied in the true spirit of 

 wisdom, forms the handbook to the Volume of Inspiration. It is- 

 the echo of the voice of the Creator " of the heavens and of the 

 earth and all that therein is," The knowledge of the one wilt 

 never be found at variance with the truths of the other. Nay,, 

 the more deeply we study each — the more minutely we compare 

 the facts and phenomena of the one with the revelations of the 

 other, the more evident shall we see the harmony that subsists 

 between them, and the more beautiful the light they reciprocally 

 shed upon each other. 



J. B. 



ARTICLE VI. — Notes on the Distribution of Insects^, c&c, 



By William Couper, Toronto, 



Cor. Mem. of Lit. <& His. Soc.^ Quebec, & Nat. His. Soc.^MontreaL 



If a keen-eyed Coleopterist confine his researches to any givers 

 district or locality he may, in one summer, attain a tolerably 

 correct knowledge of the forms existing therein ; this is onlj 



