Xll PREFACE. 



the reflected glory of the Creator, is no mean at- 

 tainment; and it possesses this advantage, that 

 thus we sanctify our pursuits, and, instead of 

 loving- the creatures for themselves, are led by 

 the survey of them and their instincts to the love 

 of Him who made and endowed them. 



Of their performance of the first part of their 

 plan, in which there is the least room for origi- 

 nality, it is only necessary for the authors to say 

 that they have done their best to make it as com- 

 prehensive, as interesting, and as useful as pos- 

 sible : but it is requisite to enter somewhat more 

 fully into what has been attempted in the anato- 

 mical, physiological, and technical parts of the 

 work. 



As far as respects the general physiology and 

 interior anatomy of insects, they have done little 

 more than bring together and combine the obser- 

 vations of the naturalists who have attended to 

 these branches of the science : but the exterior 

 anatomy they have examined for themselves 

 through the whole class, and, they trust, not 

 without some new light being thrown upon the 

 subject ; particularly by pointing out and giving 

 names to many pails never before noticed. 



In the Terminology, or what, to avoid the bar- 

 barism of a word compounded of Latin and Greek, 

 they would beg to call the Orismology of the sci- 



