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advantages of a division of labour are here most manifest, and though the various 
compilers must, to a certain extent, be allowed to adopt the plan that may, to 
their individual opinions, seem best, yet the whole will be under the supervision of 
the Committee, who will endeavour to secure uniformity, so far as that may be 
practicable. The Catalogue will be synonymic, especially with regard to the names 
given by British authors, so as to render it serviceable to our continental friends. 
The scheme having been fairly launched, we wish the co-operators in it every 
success and — may we add ?- — a speedy termination to their labours. 
Departure of Br. Hagen for America. — Before the present number is in the 
hands of our readers, Europe will have lost, perhaps for ever, one who has probably 
done more than any other to facilitate the study of Entomology. Dr. Hagen, late 
of Konigsberg, is on his way to take charge of the Entomological Collections at 
Cambridge, Massachusetts, on the invitation of Prof. Agassiz. His appointment is 
at present only provisional, but we scarcely expect that our 'cute friends on the 
other side will allow him to escape when he shall be once on their soil. 
The late Rev. Hamlet ClarJc's collections. — It is with great satisfaction we learn 
that the Phytophaga and water-beetles amassed by Mr. Clark will not be dispersed. 
Having become national property, they will serve to swell the collection of the 
British Museum. 
l^ti^to. 
Letters Rome from Spain, Algeria, and Brazil, duririg past Entomological Rambles. By 
the Eev. Hamlet Clark, M.A., F.L.S. Van Voorst, 1867. 
This modest little volume, rendered sadly interesting by the circumstances 
under which it was published, will doubtless find a corner in the library of every 
British entomologist ; not so much for any pretension to science (and, indeed, there 
is no pretension of any kind in it), as for the healthy tone, the unstudied exhibition 
of energy, and the genuine ring of its contents. " Letters home," however 
clever they may seem to their recipients, usually fail to make any mark when 
(as is too often the case) afterwards addressed to the general public. But our 
entomological public is so limited, that it may — or, at least, should — be considered 
as a single family ; so that the letters now being noticed are not likely to fail in 
exciting interest. They contain, moreover, many passages exhibiting a power of 
rapid perception of scenery and minute details of character ; so that it is evident 
that their lamented author could, if such had been his intention, have easily written 
a book that would have had a far wider range than among his fellow naturalists. 
Such passages as relate to Entomology only make the reader long for more ; and 
amongst them the description (p. 152) of the habits of insects of various orders 
frequenting a certain wounded tree for its sap, and the writer's ponderings upon 
their ways and instincts, may be mentioned as peculiarly pleasing. 
The book is illustrated by some well-executed lithographic copies of landscapes 
by J. Graj'-, Esq., a name well known in connection with those of Messrs. WoUaston |i 
and Clark. 
