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If the knowledge of English Naturalists is not sufficiently great, if we have 

 no Fabricius, or Linna>us, or Haworth, in modern days, we should curb 

 our own vanity, and not create a positive injury to Science by making our 

 deficiencies or our follies conspicuous. I believe it is adnaitted that 

 Guenee's knowledge of the Lepidoptera is very great. I think Mr. Stainton 

 has acted wisely in adopting his arrangement for the Noduina. I presume 

 he will continue it to the Pyralides and Geometridce, then we shall have 

 somebody else f suppose for the Tortrices, the Cramhidce, the Tineidce, and 

 the Pterophidce! Cannot British Entomologists in the meantime come 

 forward and unitedly publish a British list? Such names as Doubleday, 

 ISTewraan, Westwood, and Stainton, united, might carry great weight among 

 us students. At all events a union for such a purpose would be far more 

 profitable than what has been aptly termed by the reviewer, to whom I 

 before alluded, the wasting of time over "mere gossip and polyglot ab- 

 surdities." 



VACATION NOTES.— HERNE BAY. 



BY 0. S. ROUND, ESQ. 



WHE^f autmun gives me a real holiday, how I revel in the freedom of 

 the thought, and seem never to have enough of out-door life. What idle 

 work it seems, (to use an anomalous expression,) but remember, we who 

 sit on the sea-shore, and throw pebbles at the mighty element as it is 



"Chafing with its shores," 



have had our long day of labour, and the machine wants restj and perfect 

 rest it is. 



The primary use of the sea-side is the out-door life which I spoke of, 

 and you see delicate young ladies, who rise at midday, perhaps, in the great 

 metropolis, fresh as roses newly blown, walking for dear life at 7 am., in 

 the face of a stiff breeze, and with tresses bearing recent witness to contact 

 with the briny tide. Young gentlemen, too, who have been to the full as 

 much addicted to court Morpheus, in would-be-marine costume, sitting on 

 the shingle, cigar in mouth, and all the motley assemblage, whom change 

 of air and holiday-time distributes so widely over our shores at this turn 

 of the year. There is a certain degree of melancholy, too, in it; the 

 michty luminary of day vouchsafes us less and less of his company, our 

 evening walks are briefer, and our watches tell us that the morning light 

 is curtailed of its (whilom) fair proportions; nature is on its annual wane; 

 the summer visitants have fulfilled the duties of incubation, and the air 

 it filled with well-fledged representatives of the order; myriads of the 

 Swallow tribes gambol in airy glee around the house tops, like swarms of 



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