Excerpt from Memoir of Thaddeus William Harris The difiiculties met with, at length led me to think of some means of making Entomology popular, and I looked to the young as' the proper sub' jects to begin with. With the hope that by exciting a taste among children for this branch of natural history, the parents might become interested also, I have rewritten my introduction in plain and simple language, divested as much as possible of all hard words, and intend to add to it brief descriptions of some of our most common insects. This you may think is small business, but I hope it may at least be useful and entertaining to those for whom it is intended. 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.