LIST OF BRITISH ENTOMOLOGISTS. 13 



of the epithets that get freely applied to him behind his back, 

 and it damages a man's career for many years to get a bad 

 character at first starting. 



No one will find himself a loser by obtaining a character 

 for liberality. 



The following sample of a perfectly unconditional offer of 

 duplicates, from the pages of the Zoologist (1855, Sept., p. 

 4816), may not be out of place here. 



"Duplicates of the Genus Colymbetes. The water-net 

 has produced duplicates of the following species of Colym- 

 betes; I shall be much pleased to send them to any Ento- 

 mologist as long as the store holds out; C. oblongus, chal- 

 conotus, maculatus, vitreus, Stwmii, bipustulatus, ater, 

 obscurus, angustior, fidiginosus, pulverosus y exoletus and 

 bistriatus. I shall be much obliged for specimens of the 

 following species which do not appear to be metropolitan: 

 C. arcticns, fontinalis, congener, uliginosus, dispar, brun- 

 neus, notatus and adspersus. I wish it to be distinctly 



UNDERSTOOD THAT MY OFFER TO DISTRIBUTE DUPLICATES IS 

 QUITE UNCONDITIONAL, AND NOT IN ANYWAY DEPENDANT 



on gifts I may receive. I hope this mode of adver- 

 tising duplicates and desiderata will be followed by my 

 readers ; the pages of the ' Zoologist ' are at their service, 

 and there is no longer any duty on advertisements. — Edward 

 Newman." 



The following list of British Entomologists cannot pretend 

 to be a complete one. I have endeavoured to enumerate 

 every Entomologist whose name and address I could learn, 

 and who was willing to let his name figure in the list, but I 

 have no doubt that I shall hear from many who may be 

 disappointed at not seeing themselves in print in this Annual 

 for 1856. 



If each Entomologist, whose name is here omitted, will let 



