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aware, is very high praise, but it is praise which no one 
can say is unmerited. The philosophical spirit is manifested 
equally in the masterly characters given of every genus and 
species, and in the explanatory remarks which invariably 
follow each description; and I must not omit to add, that 
these descriptions and remarks are invaluable to the British 
Coleopterist, because a large proportion of the genera de¬ 
scribed, and cited for comparison, are familiar to us as indi¬ 
genous to Britain.”— Address of the President of the Ento¬ 
mological Society of London, January , 1855. 
Mr. Wollaston, who has again started for Madeira, with 
the intention of prosecuting his Entomological studies in 
those islands, around which his book has shed a halo of En¬ 
tomological glory, when almost on the eve of starting fur¬ 
nished us, at our request, with the “ Instructions in Collect¬ 
ing and Preserving Coleoptera,” given at p. 101 of this 
Annual; and we trust that many of the readers of those « In¬ 
structions” will feel a desire to make further acquaintance 
with the Author, and we are satisfied that all who, acting 
upon that feeling, once obtain a sight of the “ Insecta Made- 
rensia,” will be anxious to possess it. It is unfortunate, in 
one respect, that the work is so well got up, for though pub¬ 
lished at an unremunerative price, it is still far too expensive 
for the pockets of ordinary Entomologists. Judging from 
the appearance of the book, with its large quarto pages of 
goodly paper and broad margins, with clear type, we should 
say it was specially designed for the same class of read¬ 
ers who so greedily devoured “ Childe Harold,’ when it 
appeared in a similar form; but are there, among these 
higher classes, any readers of Entomological works . T la 
is certainly the problem which Mr. Wollastons book will 
solve; it will not reach those .who now can appreciate its 
value: will it, by its attractive exterior, engage the attention 
of others who may by it be won to a love of Entomology. 
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