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our culpable neglect of a branch of entomology, which, though dry, 

 is most essential. I allude to nomenclature, and I cannot refrain 

 from expressing my deep regret that such a mass of errors should so 

 long have existed as have lately been detected and corrected by Mr. 

 Walton in the Curculionidae, M. De Selys in the Libellulidae, Dr. 

 Schaum in the Hydrocanthari, and Mr. Henry Doubleday in the 

 Lepidoptera. 



The past summer has rendered the entomologist an abundant har- 

 vest in some of the classes : the plan of sugaring for nocturnal Lepi- 

 doptera has been attended with great success. The locust has again 

 appeared, and the facts of numbers having been seen on the sea-beach 

 (Zool. 1900), others actually picked up at sea, as recorded in several 

 local papers, and of its numerical preponderance on our eastern coast, 

 afford important items in the history of this extraordinary insect, and 

 leave us little room to doubt that it reaches these islands by crossing 

 from the continent : how this is effected we have yet to learn. 



The year has been rich in works on economic Natural History : 

 from some of these I have made copious and valuable extracts, others 

 are still reserved for this purpose. I have found these extracts as ac- 

 ceptable to subscribers as they are gratifying to the authors I have 

 quoted. This plan of exhibiting specimens is the fairest that a re- 

 viewer can adopt : candid opinion is often unsatisfactory to all parties, 

 but verbatim extracts convey an impression from which there is no 

 appeal. 



Once more I beg to thank both contributors and subscribers for 

 their assistance, and to congratulate them on the success which has 

 attended our united efforts. Year after year the ' Zoologist' attains a 

 more prominent position in the literature of the country, and finds 

 increased favour with the lovers of Nature at home and abroad. 



EDWARD NEWMAN. 

 !>, Devonshire Street, Bishopsgate, 

 October, L847. 



