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SUPPLEMENTAL LIST 



OF 



BRITISH ENTOMOLOGISTS. 



(By the Editor). 



The List of Entomologists in last year's Annual having 

 been generally accepted as one of the most useful portions 

 of that periodical, a Supplemental List is now given of all 

 those Entomologists whose names and addresses have reached 

 us since last year, and who were not unwilling to be thus 

 enumerated. Very few of these were desirous of being 

 thrust upon the public ; we had to seek them out in their 

 retreats, pathetically appeal to the Entomological patriotism, 

 and then came the modest reply, " I should not have thought 

 myself worthy of being classed amongst Entomologists, but 

 if you think any good purpose would be served by the in- 

 sertion of my name in your Supplemental List, I leave 

 you to do as you think best ;" so that the whole responsibility 

 of publishing this list has been thrown upon our shoulders. 



However we entertain no qualms but what it will be bene-> 

 ficial : each unit thus obtains a better chance of beino* thrown, 

 in contact with other units of similar dispositions. An 

 amusing result of our last year's list has become known to us. 

 Two gentlemen were on visiting terms and had known one 

 another for some years, but neither had any idea that the 

 other collected insects, till one of them finds his friend in our 



