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ENTOMOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE, NOTICES OF 
NEW WORKS, &c. 
No. X. 
Collections and Library of the late Professor Audodin.— 
It was stated in p. 94, that the collections of M. Victor Audouin 
had, since his decease, been transferred to the Jardin des Plantes, 
and that his library would most probably be sold by public auction. 
In a notice of this work, which appeared in the Revue Zoologique 
for 1842, p. 121, a doubt was thrown upon the former of these 
statements. It is proper, therefore, to mention that it was intended 
only to apply to such collections of M. V. Audouin as had been 
formed with the view of illustrating the habits and economy of 
various insects, and which had been more especially alluded to in 
the former part of my memoir of the deceased gentleman; and when 
in Paris, in May and June last, I had the pleasure to see portions 
of these collections already arranged with the greatest care, and 
publicly exhibited in one of the galleries of the Jardin des Plantes; 
these portions consisting of specimens of the nests of insects, and 
illustrations of their various modes of attack on wood and other 
materials. Such a public exhibition of objects tending to elucidate 
the economy of insects, carefully arranged and labelled, together with 
specimens of the insects by which the various labours, &c., have been 
performed, must, in my opinion, be not only far more interesting, but 
also more instructive, than a few cases of specimens with merely their 
scientific names attached; the greatest praise is, therefore, due to 
M. Milne Edwards, not only for the arrangement and exhibition of 
these specimens collected by M. Audouin, but also for the great 
care which has been bestowed upon the arrangement of the magnifi¬ 
cent collection of Crustacea belonging to the Jardin des Plantes, 
all of which are beautifully set, named, and exposed in the galleries 
ol the Jardin des Plantes. I know of but one collection in this 
country arranged with the view of illustrating the various branches 
of the economy of insect life—namely, that of the late Mr. Sells; 
and all who had the pleasure of knowing that gentleman, and 
of examining his museum, will agree with me as to the great 
amount of knowledge to be obtained by the inspection of a single 
drawer of one of his cabinets. At my request he drew up, shortly 
