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illustrious Schonherr to the Curculionidse, and 

 Baron Chaudoir to the Carabidae. 



I may go still further, and assert that the time 

 is gone by when individual exertion can keep pace 

 with the increasing state of Entomological Science. 

 It is only to the united labours of different Societies 

 and to future Committees, formed from those 

 Societies, that we can in future expect any thing like 

 a Species Insectorum. The Botanists, by their 

 united labours and publications hold out to Zoolo- 

 gists an example worthy of being followed : let 

 Entomologists in the several orders make similar 

 exertions in publishing Monographs of families and 

 genera. 



It would greatly tend to the advance and diffu- 

 sion of the science, if the different Entomological 

 Societies of Europe were to set apart sums of money 

 for the publication and illustration of such works. 

 I have been led into these remarks from having 

 investigated the first part of a Systema Insectorum, 

 published at Munich by the zealous and indefati- 

 gable Gistl. All must admire his ardour in the 

 pursuit of science, and regret the difficulties he 

 has had to encounter, as no where in Munich will 

 be found collections at all comparable with those 

 of London, Paris, Ley den, or Copenhagen. 



