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of a new specific name. Surely Mr. Andrews is expecting Mr. Grote to 

 do a little too much when he allows him to perform all this labour in 

 identifying a particular species of Sesia, and then proposes that some one 

 else should publish the results ! 



After all, however, it seems to us a very great misfortune that so much 

 importance — so much glory, in fact — is supposed to be acquired by a 

 naturalist by the mere giving a new name to an insect, and the appending 

 of his own to it. V\ r ere this kind of renown less sought after — were there 

 more generally diffused amongst us a humble desire to benefit science and 

 increase the sum of human knowledge— we should not be oppressed with 

 such a burden of synonyms as Entomology now groans under — infinite 

 labour would be spared to the conscientious student, — dire confusion and 

 distraction would not so often await the efforts of the pains taking 

 observer. 



E CONOMICAL E N T O M O L O G Y. 



BY PROFESSOR BELL. OF BELLEVILLE. 



It is distinctly within my knowledge that many persons who are not 

 overburdened with too large a share of worldly wealth, are strongly 

 inclined to make the study of Entomology and the collecting of insect 

 specimens an employment for their leisure hours, were it not for fear of 

 the expense they believe it necessary to incur for cabinet, cork, pins, &c. 

 Now, the cabinet and cork may be dispensed with — in fact, I have neither 

 the one nor the other myself. I keep my collection in boxes, nineteen by 

 twenty-four inches, outside size, of three-fourth inch pine board planed 

 down to about five-eighth inch, by two and a quarter inches deep ; the 

 backs are made of clean basswood planed smooth, and half an inch 

 thick, nailed on to the sides. On the upper edge of the two sides and on 

 one end I fix a slip of thin pine, so as to leave eighteen and an eighth 

 inches clear between the edges, and about one eighth for a groove at the 

 bottom. Over each of these I nail firmly a slip of pine a quarter cf an 

 inch thick and a little wider than the thickness of the sides, so as Jo 

 project over the inside slightly. This forms a groove for a light of glass 

 eighteen by twenty-four inches to slide in, and the groove at the bottom 

 receives the lower edge. The top is left open and the upper edge of the 



