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of sea-water thus made. The trouble is nothing, and no professional 

 skill is requisite. 



" My manufacture was made on the 21st of April. The following 

 day I poured off about half the quantity made (filtering it through a 

 sponge in a glass funnel) into a confectioner's show-glass. I put in a 

 bottom of small shore pebbles, well washed in fresh water, and one or 

 two fragments of stone with fronds of green sea-weed {Ulva latissima) 

 growing thereon. I would not at once venture upon the admission 

 of animals, as I wished the water to be somewhat impregnated with 

 the scattered spores of the Ulva ; and 1 thought that if any subtle 

 elements were thrown off from growing vegetables, the water should 

 have the advantage of it before the entrance of animal life. This, 

 too, is the order of nature; plants first; then animals." 



' Transactions of the Entomological Society of London? New Series. 

 Vol. III., Part 1. Demy 8vo., 56 pp. letter-press; 3 plates. 

 Price 3s. 6d. London : Longman. 1854. 



The papers in this part are intituled — 



' Notice of a Sack-bearing Bombyx, found by Mr. Bates near San- 

 tarem, in the Amazons.' By Edward Newman, Imp. L. C. Acad. 

 Memb., F.L.S., &c. 



' Description of a New Species of Lithocolletis.' By John Scott, 

 Esq. 



' Critical Remarks upon the British Elateridae, with Descriptions of 

 some of the Species.' By John Curtis, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



' Some Observations on the Excrement of Insects ; in a Letter ad- 

 dressed to William Spence, Esq., F.R.S., &c.' By John Davy, M.D., 

 F.R.S., Inspector-General of Army Hospitals. 



' Descriptions of some Coleopterous Larvae, &c.' By John Curtis, 

 Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



i Observations on the Economy of Pompilus punctum and other 

 Hymenoptera.' By F. Smith, Esq. 



' Descriptions of a New Species of Ichneumon.' By Thomas 

 Desvignes, Esq. 



1 Characters of undescribed Lucanidae, collected in China, by R. 

 Fortune, Esq.' By W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., &c. 



