AN 



INTRODUCTION 



TO 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



LETTER I. 



Dear Sir, '""' 



X CANNOT wonder that an active mind like yours 

 should experience no small degree of tedium in a situation 

 so far removed, as you represent your new residence to 

 be, from "the busy hum of men." Nothing certainly 

 can compensate for the want of agreeable society ; but 

 since your case in this respect admits of no remedy but 

 patience, I am glad you are desirous of turning your at- 

 tention to some pursuit which may amuse you in the in- 

 tervals of severer study, and in part supply the void of 

 which you complain. I am not a little flattered that you 

 wish to be informed which class in the three kingdoms 

 of nature is, in my opinion, most likely to answer your 

 purpose; at the same time intimating that you feel in- 

 clined to give the preference to Entomology, provided 

 some objections can be satisfactorily obviated, which you 

 have been accustomed to regard as urged with a consi- 

 derable semblance of reason against the cultivation of that 

 science. 



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