Excerpt from The Humming Bird, 1895, Vol. 5: A Quarterly Scientific, Artistic and Industrial Review There is scarcely a family of Insects in any Order on which he did not treat, and this, with the accuracy for which he was well known. His separate works were many. Among them his Introduction to the Modern Classification of Insects can be considered asa masterpiece. This work gained him the Royal Medal of the Royal Society in 1855. In 1856, his friend, Mr. Hope, presented his collections to the University of Oxford, and endowed a Professorship, which he intended should be of Entomology, but a difficulty was put in the way, and it was compromised by instituting a Chair of Invertebrate Zoology. Westwood was the first Hope Professor. He soon became a striking feature in the University, and under his charge the entomological collection increased vastly. 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.