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Excerpt from Entomologia Edinensis, or a Description and History of the Insects Found in the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh: Coleoptera
We commence an attempt to rescue our northern Entomo logy from neglect, by a historical and descriptive account of the Coleopterous Insects of the Edinburgh district. The spe cies described in the present volume have been collected with in six or seven miles of the city, except in a few instances (e. G. The Glow-worm), where these limits have been exceeded, in order to admit certain rare or otherwise interesting species. We restrict ourselves in the mean time to the Cokqsm, from a desire to render our enumeration of that Order as com plete as circumstances would admit. It is the department which is most generally studied, and it is also considerably more extensive, as well as more difficult than the others; while, at the same time, the important functions which its members perform in the economy of Nature, and the injurious conse quences which not unfrequently result to the farmer and the horticulturist, from their superabundant increase, render a knowledge of their special haunts, and general distribution, more than usually desirable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
