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readers, either from their high price, or their scientific manner, which is more likely to alarm than attract the inexperienced pupil.

The success of my "Familiar Introduction to Botany," has induced me to attempt one on a similar plan, on time pleasing science of Entomology. Believing insects to be quite as interesting as flowers, I flatter myself it will receive the same indulgence as its precursor, and be equally acceptable to my juvenile friends, it remains to say, that my acknowledgments are due to Dr. Shaw and Mr. Barbut, as the principal sources from which I have collected my materials,

PRISCILLA WAKEFIELD.

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