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bark will not grow, neither will the stem, if depriv'ed of its 
bark. 
The study of the lowest forms of life still occupies the minds 
and time of our greatest biologists, both at home and abroad ; and 
I would recommend all those who possess a microscope to study 
the life history of one of the numberless forms of animal or 
vegetable that may be found in every drop of stagnant water. 
There is at present too mucli desire among those who have an 
instrument to collect objects that are pretty, thus making natural 
history subservient to the microscope, instead of using it as an 
adjunct to the study of natural history ; and I cannot help think- 
ing that if used for the latter purpose, the naturalist who has 
devoted his leisure to the study of the larger forms of life, will 
not despise those who make use of the instrument for the study of 
minute organisms. They may appear trivial, and not worthy of 
attention, but as it has been wisely said, “ in every object there is 
inexhaustible meaning : the eye sees in it what the eye brings the 
means of seeing.” To Newton, and Newton’s dog Diamond, what 
a different pair of universes, while the painting on the optical 
retina was most likely the same ! And let us, as students of 
nature, bear in mind Galen’s aphorism, “ Naturam maxime admi- 
raberis si omnia ejus opera perlustraris.” 
V. 
ON CERTAIN COAST INSECTS FOUND EXISTING 
INLAND AT BRANDON, SUFFOLK. 
By Chas. G. Barrett. 
Read 29th November^ 1870. 
It is a fact well known to Entomologists, and probably to Natural- 
ists generally, that the sandhills which partially line our coasts 
form the exclusive habitat of many species of insects of various 
orders, and that these species are seldom, if ever, known to wander 
from the sands, even to as short a distance as a mile, or it would 
almost be safe to say a hundred yards. 
Of such, among the Lepidoptera, are several species of Noctu® 
