A familiar introduction to the history of insects; being a new and greatly improved edition. Of The grammer of entomology / By Edward Newman.

  • Newman, Edward, 1801-1876.
Date:
1841
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Credit: A familiar introduction to the history of insects; being a new and greatly improved edition. Of The grammer of entomology / By Edward Newman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it was deemed advisable to restrict the volume in its dimensions to three hundred pages, and in its charac¬ ter to a simple introduction,—a kind of “ reading made easy” to the youthful butterfly-hunter. The author cannot lay down his pen before he has acknowledged the gratification he feels from the liberal encouragement his literary labours have received : it would be false modesty to pretend blindness to the fact that the humble efforts of his pen and pencil have been unusually successful; and this knowledge raises in his heart a feeling of honest pride and gratitude he would fain express, yet knows not how. Reader, should the author persuade thee, by a pe¬ rusal of these pages, to follow in his footsteps, — to tread the paths which he has trodden, — to gaze with an enquiring and delighted eye on those things which he has gazed on,—it is enough. He bids thee, affec¬ tionately, farewell!