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     races. The whole sub-kingdom of vertebrated ani- 
     
     mals may be estimated at perhaps thirty thousand 
     
     species -—but in the insect world the Beetle tribe alone 
     
     exceeds this—and so large a proportion of all ani- 
     
     mal life (that is to say, creatures with organized 
     
     bodies, and possessed of life, endowed with sensation 
     
     and gifted with voluntary motion) belongs to the class 3 
     
     ofinsects, that were the numbers already discovered I 
     
     ofthis class, it would exceed all others put together; ‘ 
     
     and we may say even more, if the number of distinct 
     
     insects already known were deducted from the gross 
     
     number yet open to discovery, it is not unlikely but 
     
     that the undiscovered regions would hold a grand 
     
     majority. Hence we say that the field is wide and 
     
     interesting, and commend it to the intelligence of 
     
     those whose aptitude for study and love of nature 
     
     are soliciting employment; and if a few of nature’s 
     
     children would only learn how to preserve and set 
     
     specimens of the sixth order, viz., Lepidoptera, 
     
     which includes the Butterfly and Moth divisions, they 
     
     would soon find their reward, not only in the expan- 
     
     sion of mind the study would afford, and the health 
     
     the pursuit would confer, but in a pecuniary sense- 
     
     they would find money’s worth. And when students 
     
     of nature visit Prince Edward Island, there would be 
     
     a demand, were it known that collections had been 
     
    
   
   
    
     made, at good prices often, for any quantity. 
     
    
   
   
    
     When the Prince of Wales’ College is established 
     
     and in good working order, it will have a Natural 
     
     History chair, and, in course of time, a museum, 
     
     and a student’s library, and take an honorable 
     
     position among Colleges for learning, and those new 
     
     and enlightened adaptations to the claims of modern 
     
     times, without which it would only remain, save in 
     
     the dignity of its name, the old Academy, and some 
     
     day it will be felt honorable to be connected with this 
     
     old mine of learning; but we must not expect too 
     
     rapid an expansion ofthe degrees of this college; at 
     
     present the slow degree of its progress is enough.