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MEMOIR OF DR. LXNDLEY. 
articles is reprehensible. The failure of the Entomological was no doubt in part 
owing to this; and a similar result, or at all events a small circulation, may be 
expected from the pages of the Annals of Natural History being crowded with 
papers of this description. I am acquainted with more than one individual who 
(although conversant themselves with the dead languages), feeling convinced that 
in this respect the Annals were erroneously conducted, have ceased to subscribe 
to that periodical. 
Mr. Green justly regrets that there is no work on the species of insects at a 
price within the reach of the majority of students. I am happy to inform him 
that there is a probability of this being shortly supplied. Mr. Curtis— who in 
competency for the task and amount of materials need not yield to any one— 
has announced his intention of publishing a Synopsis of British Insects , to appear 
in volumes, each volume containing an order. After Mr. C/s announcement it is 
not probable that Mr. Westwood will attempt a similar work. 
My friend Mr. T. B. Hall will I trust excuse me if I hint to him the propriety 
of using the modern names of the insects he may have to mention in his interest- 
ing papers. I am sorry to see “ Papilio Brassicce” “ Pap. napi” u Phal^na 
fuliginosa f &c. To say the least of it, such nomenclature to entomologists looks 
rather slovenly, and I fear is not calculated to be beneficial to the student. 
Believe me, 
Faithfully yours, 
To Neville Wood, Esq., &c. &c. Peter Rylands. 
THE NATURALIST’S LITERARY PORTRAIT-GALLERY.* 
(Continued from p. 373.) 
No. Y. — John Lindley, Ph.D., F.R.S., &c. 
In the history of almost every department of science we find periods in which 
it has been especially indebted to the labours of a single individual. Those who 
thus distinguish themselves generally possess the qualities of extensive knowledge 
and acute thought—a power of grasping a large amount of facts, and an ability 
to arrange and separate them according to their most obvious relations and 
differences. The appearance of such individuals marks the progress of a science, 
and the history of their labours mostly forms the record of its advancement. 
'* This series—comprising zoologists, botanists, geologists, and meteorologists, and including both 
scientific and popular naturalists—will be continued every alternate month, each memoir being 
accompanied by a portrait and autograph.—E d. 
