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the other orders, a synopsis and elucidation of all the British genera (a grand 
desideratum), various critical remarks, &c., would fully make up a second yo- 
lume, if the first should be well received: and the interest of our pockets dis- 
suades from risking too much at once. ‘To the end of the volume I would add 
a close-printed dictionary of terms, which would be useful for reference. The 
above outline, you perceive, wants a deal of filling up; but this sketch is sufficient 
to enable you to judge of the merits of the plan. I have thought a good deal 
about it, and I am persuaded that some such plan, as far as making the work 
attractive is concerned, will be infinitely preferable to any dry chapter-and- 
verse bare enumeration of the parts of insects, like Yeats’s, or even Linné’s and 
Fabricius’s immortal ‘ Fundamenta’ and ‘ Philosophia.’ Every body reads with 
avidity anecdotes of the uses, injurious properties, habits, &e., of insects ; and 
only admit your readers through such a vestibule, you will win numbers to the 
science, who would have been deterred at the very threshold of mere technical 
discussions. Indeed, I very much doubt whether fifty copies of a work of the 
latter description would be sold; of the former, I am sure, five hundred might. 
As I look upon our ‘Introduction’ scheme as determined on, ought we to lose 
much more time in setting about it?” ; 
Mr. Kirby’s next letter to me is dated Feb. 13, 1809: and after three 
pages of remarks as to the expediency of retaining old and generally-used 
names, even though strictly not proper (as mandibule for maxilla), which 
Thad contended for, but to which he objected, he says towards the end of 
the letter — 
“ With respect to our copartnership, I do not think it is much concerned in 
this argument, for as our terms must be English we should do no more than 
mention the names of Latin writers. The plan of the work which you have 
drawn up in your letter, upon the whole pleases me much, I see with you the 
necessity of making it a popular work, and with a view to it, haye been making 
extracts from Latreille, and have got, so forward as to’ have written a great 
part of the Introductory letter containing a defence of Entomology from all the 
objections that have been made to it. I think separate Letters should be al- 
lotted to the injuries and benefits of insects, another to the wonderful particu- 
lars of their history, and then the mode of collecting and preserving them. 
But in my opinion the part that relates to terms should not be confined to Co- 
leoptera,—it should take in all the orders, for which I have materials prepared 
from Latreille, whose Introduction will be a great help with respect to the 
Crustacea and Aptera, which you and I perhaps know at present little of. I 
want another term instead of terminology, which is a word of base origin, having 
a Latin father and a Greck mother. Orismology, though new-born, is a le- 
gitimate word, and I think would soon be received into good company, since 
he deserves it as well as Orychtology, Ornithology, and many other children of 
his mother Aoyla, . . . . 
“J have had a letter from my friend Marsham the other day, containing a 
long philippic against our innovations, and the multiplication of genera, in 
which he seems to say that he gives up all intention of going further in 
‘Entomologia Britannica.’ In my answer I gave him a further hint of our 
intention, by saying that besides our Introduction to Entomology, we had an- 
other plan in view, which we hoped would tend to promote the sale of ‘1. B.’ 
also, but that at presont it was an unlicked cub, and therefore I should not say 
what it was at present. ’Tis best to break the ice gradually; for though he 
ought not to be displeased at it, and our works do not interfere, yet I can 
plainly seo there is a little jealousy hanging about him. I have a great regard 
for him, and you may observe in my Apion how tenderly I have treated him 
