The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-07-29
An Exhibition OF insects.
IAmerican Register.I

The Exhibition OF Insects opened last
Mondav at the Palais de PIndustrie, and
has since attracted fairly numerous at
tendance. A certain disorder still reigns
with regard 20 the classification, but the
organization will next week be complete,
so that this Interesting exhibition Will be
seen at its best. The present Is the
twenty-sixth Exhibition OF Insects held
in Paris under the auspices OF the So
cjete Centrale d'Apiculture ct d'lnsecto-
logic. the object OF the the Society being to
classify and improve the insects useful to
man. and to point out the best means OF
extirpating the noXious ones. or at least oil
checking their ravages. The ASSOCIATION,
at the head OF which is DIR. Marmottan,
Deputy for the Department OF the Seine,
has succeeded very well in its attempts, and
the exhibition this year is organized on a
very complete scale. being composed oil
four main divisions and one subsidiary
one, devoted to snails and slugs.) The
first division comprises all insects OF re-
cognized utility TO man, and the various
stages OF their development, from the
egg TO the perfect state. The second divi-
sion contains nOXious insects; they have
very adysedly been claSsed, not according
to the scientific grouping, but according to
the plants they prey upon. There are
ten classes i'm the noXious division. the iIrst
six of which include the parasites OF vege-
tables and trees, the seventh and eighth
contain the insects which prey upon tim
Der and upon manufactured materials, silk,
linen, &C.. and the ninth class comprises
the ordinary parasites, such as the flea, &c.,
and the tenth the insects INJURIOUS TO pisci-
culture. The third division groups to-
gether all the birds, animals, and reptiles
which tend TO destroy the harmful insect,
and thus act rs friends to man. The fourth
division is devoted TO the arts and manu-
facturc more directly connected with the
cultivation Of insects. The principal fea-
lures Of the exhibition are naturally the
silk-worm and bee, with their various me-
thods Of culture, products, Ne. Aperture
is not very largely represented ut the En-
hibition OF Insects, and il the bee-lnduStry
is not better carried on in France than
would seem to he the case from visit TO the
PalaiS de rInduStrie, there is room for i'm
provement in this respect. SGricuture, as
the French term the rearing of Slk-wormS,
is also inaGcqhately represented at the
exhibition indeed, the only silk-grOwer
Of any importance there represented
is Baroness Herald de Pages, who owns
a large mdgndnerie, or manufacture OF
siIk-worms at Lourmaria, in the Depart
ment OF Vauclllse. The show OF bee-hives
is good enough, and the honey exhibited is
Of very fine appearance. Butterflies and
beetles some OF them cIassed rs noXious
and others as useiul-are very nlmerously
represented. The section OF snakes and
lizards exhibited on account OF their re-
htions TO inSects-the relations OF the de-
stroyer and the destroyed is more com
pete than might have been expected. The
owl, so fata, TO mice and rodents in gene
raj. stands all by himself i'll post of
honor, while the rodents who destroy
grain are pilIoried in cages. On the whole,
the Exhibition Of Insects may be visited
with interest