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THE ENTOiMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLTGENCEB. 
naturalists, quite free from hypotheses of 
tiansmutatioD, are constantly inferring 
former geographical continuity between 
parts of the world now widely disjoined, 
in order to account thereby for certain 
generic similarities among their in- 
habitants, * * * 
“ 4. Here the fact of the antiquity of 
creation, and in particular of the present 
kinds of the earth’s inhabitants, or of a 
large part of them, comes in to rebut the 
objection, that there has not been time 
enough for any marked diversification of 
living things through divergent variation, 
— not time enough for varieties to have 
diverged into what we call species.* * * 
“ 5. The overlapping of existing and 
extinct species, and the seeming gradual 
transition of the life of the drift period 
into that of the present, may be turned 
to the same account. Mammoths, mas- 
todons and Irish elks, now extinct, must 
have lived down to human, if not almost 
to historic times. * * * Whatever 
might have been thought, when geological 
time was supposed to be separated from 
the present era by a clear time, it is now 
certain that a gradual replacement of old 
forms by new ones is strongly suggestive 
of some mode of origination which may 
still be operative.” 
Univeesity Intelligence. — Oxford, 
April 26. The Hope Professor of Zoology 
(Mr. Westwood) will deliver a course of 
lectures in this term in the New Museum, 
on Wednesdays and Saturdays, at 2 p. m. 
The present series of lectures will be 
chiefly confined to the Insecta of Lin- 
naeus. The first lecture will be delivered 
on Saturday, May 4. The lectures are 
open to members of the University on 
payment of the statutable fee of £l. The 
Professor may be consulted daily at the 
Taylor Institution between 12 and 4. 
T he ‘ZOOLOGIST’ for may 
contains an account of the Pre- 
sentation to Mr. Newman of the Testi- 
monial which formed the subject of the 
Leaders, Nos. 184 and 194, of the ‘ In- 
telligencer.’ This account comprises the 
Address of the Testimonialists, a List of 
their Names, and Mr. Newman’s Acknow- 
ledgment of the honour conferred upon 
him. 
London: John Van Voorst, 1, Pater- 
noster Row. 
T he le pidopterist’s 
CALENDAR. By Joseph 
Meerin. Price Is. 6d.; cloth 2s. 
“ On the whole we are of opinion that 
this volume will be found very serviceable 
to all that numerous class who have not 
already learned by their own ex- 
perience.” — Entomologist’s Intelligencer. 
“ To those who have only collected the 
perfect insect, we recommend this Ca- 
lendar as opening up to them a higher 
source of interest and instruction, in ob- 
serving the forms and habits of the earlier 
conditions of the various species of Lepi- 
doptera.” — Alhenxum. 
London: E. Newman, 9, Devonshire 
Street, Bishopsgate. Sent on receipt of 
Is. Qd. or 2s. in postage stamps by the 
Publisher, or the Author, Gloucester. 
P RICED LIST OF EUROPEAN 
LEPIDOPTERA. — I have just 
received a new and very complete Edi- 
tion of Herrich-Schaffer’s Priced List of 
European Lepidoptera. Price lOi., 
post free. 
E. Newman, 9, Devonshire Street, 
Bishopsgate. 
C ollection for sale.— a 
Gentleman, who has no longer time 
to devote to the study of Entomology, 
wishes to dispose of a small Collection of 
British liCpidoptera, comprising about 
400 specimens. Price, cases included, 
£7 7s. (without cases £6 6s.). 
Can be seen on application to the 
Housekeeper at 52, Gracechurch Street. 
Printed and published by Edward Newman, 
Printer, of No. 9, Devonshire Street, Bisbops- 
fcate Without, London, in the County of 
Middlesex. — Saturday, May 4, 1861. 
