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PART II. 
REVIEWS AND EXTRACTS. 
REVIEW. 
THE ENTOMOLOGICAL MAGAZINE. 8vo. 3s. 6d. 
Occasional Plates. Continued Quarterly. 
Amongst the numerous scientific productions of the present day, none seem cal¬ 
culated to benefit society more, than periodical Magazines; their being open for 
the insertion of the daily discoveries, made by our eminent and practical men of 
science; and the same discoveries being subject to criticism, tend to clear up the 
truth sooner than it could have been any other way. A Magazine exclusively 
confined to the present branch of Natural History was wanted, and although we 
cannot dive deep in the technical phraseology of our learned men, we neverthe¬ 
less think the present work will be eminently useful to those who can. We hail 
its appearance with pleasure, because we judge it will tend to convince many, 
that the study of insects is not an unimportant one. The present work is to con¬ 
tain illustrations of the habits and metamorphosis of insects, descriptive charac¬ 
ters of new genera and species, records of the captures of rarities, reviews (with 
extracts of all new entomological works, and information of every kind connected 
with the science of entomology, not merely British, but throughout the world, 
that all entomologists may become acquainted with each other’s proceedings. 
Three numbers now lie before us, with each of which we have been much pleased, 
and that encouragement it already receives from our scientific men, speaks more 
in its favour than we can possibly do. Its articles are not generally such as suit 
our purpose for the Register , yet there are some “ Observations on Blight,” which 
we cannot with justice leave untouched, because our extracting them will show 
something of the merits of the work, and will also be the meaus of giving a lit¬ 
tle wider circulation to information of so much importance. 
“ Blight, is a term generally misunderstood, especially among those whom it 
more particularly concerns. The knowing Horticulturist will tell you, ‘ there is 
blight in the air to-day, and in a few days or weeks, he will see the web of the 
lackey, or yellow tail, or the ermine on his white thorn hedge-rows; or the cat- 
terpillars of the death's-head hawk moth on his potatoes; or those of butterflies 
on his cabbages; and then he will give you a toss of his head, and say, ‘I knew 
there would be blight this year, I saw it coming in the air;’ or perhaps he may 
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