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out to battle in organized regular bands, & freely sacrifice their lives for the common weal; they emigrate by gr in accordance with a pre-concerted plans; they capture slaves; they keep aphids as milk cows, & move their eggs, as well as & their own eggs & cocoons into various parts of the nest. attend to the hatching of the eggs of these insects & place their eggs in warm alcoves so as to be soon hatched; & many other such facts could be added. On the other hand the scale-insect live a completely passive existence & does nothing but generate its viscid & suck the sap of the plant on which it is affixed. for life. Seeing so great a difference in the intellectual powers of insects which everyone ranks in the same class, the view maintained by some few naturalists that besides the animal & vegetable kingdoms, a separate kingdom ought to be instituted for the reception of man seems to me wholly inadmissible.