Excerpt from General Directions for Collecting and Preserving Exotic Insects and Crustacea: Designed for the Use of Residents in Foreign Countries, Travellers, and Gentlemen Going Abroad; With Illustrative Plates
The lively interest taken by the British Public in the promotion of every branch of science, and the numerous Collections of 06 jeete of Natural History that are formihg. In every part of England, aford a eonibin'cing praof of theprogreee of this delightfwt study, and of the very general. Feeling manifested in its favour. If it should be asked whence this has arisen, we cannot but think that the intercourse with the Continenthae, in a gr eat measure, tended to awaken these feelings, and has natmally excited this laudable cm iosity, amd stimulated an inquiiy into those wmh'e of the creator which the most unenlightened cannot behold without admiration cmd delight.
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