48 THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
KIRBY AND SPENCE’S ENTOMOLOGY. 
Just published, in one closely printed Volume of GOO pages, crown octavo, 
price 5s., cloth, 
NTKODUCTION TO ENTOMOLOGY; 
or, Elements of the Natural History of Insects. Comprising an 
Account of Noxious ancl Useful Insects, — of their Metamorphoses, Food, 
Stratagems, Societies, Motions, Hybernation, Instinct, &c. By William 
Kirby, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., Rector of Barham; and William Spence, 
Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S. Seventh Edition (sixth thousand), with an Appendix 
relative to the Origin and Progress of the Work. 
SIXTH THOUSAND OF THE SEVENTH AND CHEAPER EDITION 
“ No work in the English language, we 
believe, has done more than Kirby and 
Spence's learned and popular Introduction 
to spread the taste for Natural History at 
home.... The book is, indeed, a marvel of 
cheapness, — considerably more than 000 
closely-printed octavo pages for five shil- 
lings.... To our readers, old and young, — 
parents, children, teachers, respectively, — 
we say, ‘buy and read;’ enjoy, verify, and 
enlarge, by the use of your own eyes and 
faculties, the curious details in rural eco- 
nomy, animal biography, and mental phi- 
losophy, amassed with so much study and 
personal observation, and digested with 
equal taste and judgment by the learned 
authors ." — Natural History Review. 
which it has exerted a similar influence 
over persons in advanced life, and devoted 
to pursuits which might be supposed little 
calculated to leave room for any enthusiasm 
on behalf of insects. In one case a learned 
friend of ours who had just been exploring, 
and with good results, the fusty Syriac 
MSS. of the British Museum, was so de- 
lighted with the book, on dipping into a 
copy which accidentally fell in his way, that 
he straightway purchased one for himself, 
read it with avidity, and has since become 
a most industrious collector. The other 
instance was that of one of our most popu- 
lar metropolitan clergymen, who, having 
had occasion to refer to the book for the 
elucidation of some passage of Scripture 
relating to insects, was so deeply interested 
in what he read that he publicly recom- 
mended the work from the pulpit, with a 
warmth of commendation which somewhat 
surprised his hearers." — Titan ; November, 
1857. 
“ It is almost impossible to read this 
engaging volume without becoming ena- 
moured of the study of the little creatures 
whose habits and instincts it describes ; 
and the rapidity with which the new edition 
is now being sown broadcast over the land 
may reasonably be expected to produce be- 
fore long an abundant crop of incipient 
Entomologists. But it is not young people 
merely who are taken captive by this book. 
We have lately met with two instances in 
“ Let no man think he knows how to 
enjoy the country who has not studied the 
volumes of Kirby and Spence ." — Quarterly 
Review (The Honey Bee). 
London : Longman, Brown & Co., Paternoster Row. 
Printed and published by Edward Nrwman, Printer, of No. !l, Devonshire Street, Bishopsgate 
Without, London, in the county of Middlesex. — Saturday, May 8, 1868. 
