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Another important matter will be to introduce in its 

 place, and as nearly as possible in the words of the original 

 writer, the natural history of any species which has long- 

 ago been fully given by Reaumur, DeGeer, &c, and which, 

 though long since thus recorded, has been overlooked by 

 subsequent writers, from the difficulty of satisfactorily 

 identifying the nameless species for which it was intended. 



Where previous authors have mixed together as belong- 

 ing to one species observations applying to several species, 

 care will be taken to separate these several remarks, show- 

 ing to which species each belongs. 



The letter-press will be in Four languages, English, 

 French, German and Latin, so that the volumes will be 

 intelligible to the collectors of England, France and Ger- 

 many, whether linguists or not; the impediment of a foreign 

 language in a work of this kind is ever found an obstacle 

 to its wide circulation, and he who describes in Latin 

 writes only for the scientific few, not for the unlearned 

 many, whom it is desirable to attract to the study. 



The price of the volumes will be made as low as possible, 

 and little more than the expense of colouring the Plates. 



But as even this moderate sum might put the work 

 beyond the reach of many a hard-working Collector, the 

 Editor proposes to present a Copy of the entire Series to 

 every one who shall first discover and communicate to him 

 the Transformations of Twenty Species of Tineina, with 

 which the Editor was previously unacquainted. 



The Volumes will be published under the superintend- 

 ence of a Committee, consisting of 



Mr. J. W. Douglas, 6, Kingswood Place, Lee; 

 Mr. H. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, Lewisham; and 

 Mr. W. Wing, 17, Priory Road, South Lambeth. 



All Communications to be addressed to the Editor, Mr. 

 II. T. Stainton, Mountsfield, Lewisham. 



%* Parties wishinrj to subscribe to the first Ten Volumes, at 7s. 6d. 

 each volume, are requested to forward their names to some Member 

 of the Committee. 



It is proposed to publish one or two volumes annually; the first 

 volume before the close of the present year. 



January 11///, 1854, 



