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met with from all classes of entomologists, not only renders its continuance 
in future years a matter of certainty, but has rendered it necessary to bring 
out a second edition of that ‘for 1855.’ * * * 
“ I hope that the increase in the size of this edition will not render the 
purchasers of the first edition dissatisfied with their bargains; as the 
chapters added are quite elementary, they are comparatively useless to the 
‘ old hands;’ yet if any one feels himself aggrieved in this matter, if he 
wishes it, I shall be happy to give him a copy of the second edition in 
exchange for his copy of the first.” 
We need only remark on this quotation, that we rejoice to find that 
public opinion has so substantially confirmed our original estimate of the 
work, and that we have little doubt that our author’s very liberal offer of 
exchange will suffice to allay any feeling that might arise alien to that of 
the delectable contentment whose charms he has ably depicted in his 
address to the young. 
The only addition to the number of species noted will be found among 
the macrolepidoptera, at p. 32, but this is balanced by the unfortunate 
necessity of laying aside one of the new coleoptera figured, Lathrobium 
carinatum (vide p. 123); this seems to have been previously described on 
the Continent, and, moreover, to have occurred (for the first time in 
Britain) near Dublin, where it was taken by Mr- Haliday many years 
since. Among the additions, however, none of the entertaining chapters 
proposed in the preface to the first edition have yet appeared; nor can 
we regret their absence, seeing that the only apparent justification to their 
introduction-—namely, the unpopularity of a strictly scientific book of the 
kind—has been dissipated by the rapid and unexpected sale of the first 
edition. 
The proposal (put forward in the new preface) to publish a list of ento¬ 
mologists’ names and addresses, is one which will bear timely consideration 
before it is carried into effect. If it were to include all who would consent 
to supply their names, &c.—though, on the one side, it would be no small 
convenience to the younger collectors to know how, where, and when to 
address for information their more exalted brethren, it might, on the other, 
tend to develop and encourage a morbid love of notoriety, very far wide of 
the true motives upon which the study of nature should be undertaken and 
pursued. Should it, therefore, in this, as in other matters, appear advan¬ 
tageous to follow in the steps of our continental brethren, who regularly 
publish such lists, our opinion is that the English list should not include 
any names but those which have already appeared in some of the pe¬ 
riodicals, or before some of the learned societies of the day. 
