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Correspondence. 
[April, 
“ OUR INSECT ALLIES.” 
Your reviewer seems, in dealing with this point, to have over- 
looked a point of some importance. If, as the author contends, 
“ there is no insedt absolutely injurious to our interests,” by a 
parity of reasoning, or of assumption, the same may surely be 
said of morbific germs, — nay, of vicious and criminal men. 
The author argues further that noxious insedts, commonly so 
called, are an annoyance only to civilised man, but not to the 
savage. This may, perhaps, be true as regards the locust, the 
potato-beetle, the Phylloxera, &c., but it does not hold good with 
the mosquito, the sand-fly, or the chigoe, which are as much 
dreaded by savages and barbarians as by the most cultivated 
nations. 
Naturforscher. 
