12 IS ENTOMOLOGY PROGRESSING ? 



Yet at the same time the progress is not great, and by no 

 means to the extent that is actually desirable. Either Ento- 

 mologists are not clever, or clever men do not become Ento- 

 mologists ; a disagreeable statement no doubt, but one from 

 which apparently there is no escape, and we never shirk 

 stating the truth, just because it happens to be unpleasant. 



At the present day the collectors of beetles in this country 

 want a clever man to write them a Manual of British 

 Beetles; and whether we hunt high or low amongst our 

 Coleopterists, the fitting man cannot be found. Surely this 

 state of things will not always last ! 



