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Ireland ; by E; Percival Wright, Esq., iV.B. On Stepanomia contorta, 

 an addition to the British Fauna, and on the Genus Agalma of Esch- 

 scholtz ; by A. G. Melville, M.D., Professor of Natural History in 

 Queen's College, Galway. Journal of the Dublin Geological Society. 

 On the Lower Carboniferous Beds of the Peninsula of Hook County 

 of Wexford; by the Rev. S. Haughton, M.A., Professor of Geology 

 in the University of Dublin. The Igneous Rocks of the Berehaven 

 District; by G. H. Kinahan, Esq. Geological Survey of Ireland. 

 On the Probable Existerence of Fossils in the Limestone of Guldaff, 

 County of Donegal ; by Patrick Ganly. Observations on the Struc- 

 ture of Strata; by Patrick Ganly. On the Trappean Rocks in the 

 Neighbourhood of Killarney ; by Frederick Foot. On the Geology 

 of the Chinchas Islands, Peru, South America; by J. R. Kinahan, 

 Esq., M.B. 



Notices of Serials. 



6 An Introduction to Entomology ; or, Elements of the Natural History 

 of Insects., comprising an Account of Noxious and Useful In- 

 seels; 8$c. By William Kirby, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., Rector of 

 Barham, and William Spence, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S. Seventh 

 Edition, with an Appendix relative to the Origin and Progress 

 of the Work. 608 pp. post 8vo, price 5s. London : Long- 

 man & Co. 1856. 



It was a graceful act on the part of the surviving author of the 

 ' Introduction to Entomology' to give the world this cheap and port- 

 able edition of a work which has ever stood at the head of intro- 

 ductory works on Science, and which is indispensable to the student 

 of Entomology. In whatever light we view the ' Introduction,' its 

 utility and value are equally apparent. To the tyro, yet on the very 

 threshold of the study, it conveys sound instruction in the most simple 

 and enticing form ; he is led on irresistibly, and is compelled, as it 

 were, unconsciously to imbibe the soundest instruction. To the more 

 advanced student it is equally serviceable, for it collects and metho- 

 dizes all existing information on every branch of the subject. It 

 should have been mentioned, perhaps I have overlooked such men- 

 tion, that this reprint extends only to the first and second volumes of 

 the original work ; the third and fourth have been most wisely omitted. 

 Whatever opinions may be entertained as to the intrinsic merit of the 



