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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, 
just the sort of book every entomologist 
would wish to see widely circulated. 
The object of it “ is to show how much 
the pleasures of country life may be in- 
creased by some acquaintance with the 
various forms of animal and vegetable life 
with which we are surrounded.” 
The first chapter treats of an English 
June in general; this is followed by 
June in Scotland; June at the Lakes; 
June in Devonshire; June in Sussex; 
and June in the neighbourhood of 
London. 
“ If the whole of human life were like 
a fine English day in June, we should 
cease to wish for ‘ another and a belter 
world.’ ” 
Importance of the Book Post. — 
There are good grounds for the opinion 
that by far the larger portion of the book- 
parcels which the Post Office carries 
would not be sent at all but for the 
peculiar facilities offered by the extensive 
organization of the Post Office, contrasted 
with which the facilities which railway 
companies can of themselves afford, sink 
into insignificance. When it is recol- 
lected that there are about 10,500 Post 
Offices scattered throughout the united 
kingdom, that there is scarcely a village 
without a Post Office, and scarcely even 
a hamlet without a regularly established 
official means of communication with a 
Post Office, and that consequently persons, 
even in the most secluded districts, can 
communicate by Post with all parts of 
the kingdom with tolerable certainty, and 
with very little trouble or expense, it will 
readily be seen that such facilities as 
these must lead to the transmission of 
books and documents which otherwise 
would never be sent. Mr. Charles Knight, 
the eminent publisher, says that the cases 
in which books are sent by Post may be 
nearly all considered as exceptional cases 
to the ordinary commercial operates of 
publishing . — Second Annual Report of 
the Post Office. 
Completion of the 'Butterflies. 
Now ready , Nos. 1, 2 and 3, price 3d. 
each , of 
i MANUAL OF BRITISH 
A BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS. 
By H. T. Stainton, Editor of ‘ The En- 
tomologist’s Annual.’ 
N.B. The Third Thousand of Nos. 1 2 
is now selling. 
London: John Van Voorst, Paternos- 
ter Row, and to be had of all Booksellers 
and News Agents. 
On the 1st of June will he published , 
price 5s, crown 8vo, in cloth , 
A PLEA FOR SPECIFIC VARIA- 
TION IN THE INSECTA ; 
with Notes on the Generic Theory. By 
T. Vkunon Wollaston, M.A., F.L.S. 
London: John Van Voorst, 1, Pater- 
noster Row. 
Just out, price 3s., 
JUNE : 
A BOOK FOR THE COUNTRY 
IN SUMMER TIME. 
By H. T. Stainton. 
London: Longman, Brown, Green and 
Longmans. 
Printed urn! published by Edward Nkwman, 
Printer, of No. W, Devonshire Street, ilishoiis 
gate Without, London, in the county of Mid- 
dlesex.— Suturduy, May 17, lH&ti. 
