ENTOMOLOGICAL WRITINGS OF THOMAS SAY. 139 



Art. VII. — List of the Entomological Writings of Thomas Say. 

 By Edward Doubleday, Esq. 



Since my return from the United States, several of my friends 

 have suggested to me that the publication of a list of the ento- 

 mological writings of Thos. Say, especially if that list indica- 

 ted the works in which they can be found, would render a ser- 

 vice to Entomology, and be in part the means of doing justice, 

 or causing it to be done, to the merits of that indefatigable na- 

 turalist, whose labours are far less known than they ought to 

 be, partly from the vast variety of publications through which 

 his papers were given to the public, and partly from the little 

 attention which has been paid in England to the labours of 

 our transatlantic brethren. 



We are, it is true, accustomed to look on Say as, par ex- 

 cellence, the American entomologist ; but how few form an 

 adequate idea of that ardent zeal, that untiring energy, that 

 perseverence under the most depressing circumstances, that 

 indefatigable industry in collecting, that laborious accuracy in 

 describing with clearness and precision, and above all, of that 

 high moral worth, that kindness of heart and gentleness of 

 disposition, which make him an object of veneration to all 

 who knew him, and cause his memory to be cherished with 

 fondness by all who had once the happiness of calling him 

 their friend ! 



Thomas Say is no more. Science mourns yet over the no- 

 blest of her votaries in the Western World. Long has he 

 been robbed of much of the merit due to him, by some, through 

 ignorance, by others, wilfully. There are those, shame be up- 

 on them ! there are those to whom he sent specimens, label- 

 led with his own hand, with names given them by himself, 

 to whom he pointed out when and where he had described 

 those species, — there are those who yet have wantonly disre- 

 garded his names, and, taking advantage of the difficulty of 

 procuring his writings, described these very specimens under 

 others, for the sake of a claim to an apparent priority in nam- 

 ing them, false though that claim were. Let us, in England, 

 for the future, strive to do him justice. From English natu- 

 ralists he has experienced no wilful injury ; by neglect how- 

 ever he has suffered. 



By the kindness of Dr. Harris of Cambridge, Mass., I am 

 enabled to publish a more complete list of Say's entomologi- 

 cal writings than has yet appeared. They are as follows. — 



