An Introduction to Entomology, or Elements of the Natural History of Insects, Vol. 1 : With Plates (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from An Introduction to Entomology, or Elements of the Natural History of Insects, Vol. 1: With Plates

The vulgar, the idea of the trifling nature of his pursuit is so strongly associated 'with that of the diminutive size of its objects, that an entomo logist is synonymous with every thing futile and Childish. Now, when so many other roads to fame and distinction are Open, when a man has merely to avow himself a botanist, a mineralogist, or a'chemist - és student of classical literature Or of political economy - 40 ensure attention and re spect, there are evidently no great. Attractions to leaduhim to a science which in nine compani'es out of ten with which he may associate promises.

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