ARCANA ENTOMOLOGICA. 
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ENTOMOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE, NOTICES OF 
NEW WORKS, &c. 
British Museum.— The situation of the Curator of the entomo¬ 
logical department in the British Museum lias become vacant by 
the removal of Mr. Samouelle. It is to be hoped that, for the sake 
of science, a successor of competent ability will be appointed in his 
stead. When the state of the entomological collections in this 
national establishment is taken into consideration, and when it is 
stated that in the national museums of France, Prussia, Austria, 
Holland, &c., several persons * (some of them men of renown) are 
engaged in the entomological department of each, it is not too much 
to express a hope that the trustees of the British Museum will again 
endeavour to follow up the recommendations of the parliamentary 
committee, by 44 obtaining the whole time and services of the ablest 
men, 1 ’’ as they have already done in the appointment of the present 
chief superintendant of the entire zoological collections. 
Encyclopaedias of Natural History .— 1 The French have long 
taken precedence over us, and indeed all other nations, in the 
publications of Dictionaries of Natural History. The entomological 
portion of the great 44 Encyclopedic Methodique ” is a distinct part 
of the work, and alone occupies ten quarto volumes ; the 44 Diction- 
naire des Sciences Naturelles,” of which the portion relative to 
insects was written by M. Dumeril (and was subsequently repub¬ 
lished in his 44 Considerations Generates ”), occupied fifty-six octavo 
volumes ; the entomological articles of the 44 Dictionnaire d’Histoire 
Naturelle,” in twenty-four octavo volumes, and the 44 Nouveau 
Dictionnaire d’Hist. Natur.” in thirty-six octavo' volumes, were 
written by Latreille, who also, in conjunction with Messrs. Audouin 
and Guerin, wrote the entomological articles of the 44 Dictionnaire 
Classique d’Hist. Nat.,” in seventeen octavo volumes. More re¬ 
cently, M. Guerin has edited a cheap 44 Dictionnaire Pittoresque 
d’Hist. Nat ” in small folio, extending through several volumes with 
many plates, which is not yet completed; and a new and more im- 
* At the Jardin des Plantes, Messieurs Audouin, Brulle, Blanchard, Lucas, and one or 
two assistants. At the Berlin Museum, Drs. Klug and Erichson, and two assistants. At 
Vienna, M. Kollar. At Leyden, M. De Haan. 
