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Hampstedlcusls,* Chliuborazlum,! Zamboanga,;!: Mahallakocna,§ Maclagascancnsis,|| &c., 

 were bestowed ou rare and lovely insects by tlie giants of Entomology, men from whose dictum 

 there can scarcely Ijc an appeal. 



I have now I trnst done my duty towards Mr. Saunders, I can but make my salaam, 

 reiterate my thanks, and adjure him not again to let his emotions so far overpower him as to 

 make him lose his temper in the futile attempt to jn-ove I had lost mine, a thing which I 

 scrupulously avoid, as it unfits one for business or rational pleasures and, worst of all, it spoils 

 digestion. Herman Strecker, Eeading, Pa. 



The following letter, which I received just as the above was going to press, needs no 

 comment of mine, and as I have the writer's permission to use it as I please, I think the very 

 best use I can make of it is to lay it before the "Entomological World, " not with the im- 

 pression, however, that it will be astonished thereat after reading the foregoing pages : 



Room 4, No. 117 Broadway, New York, August 5, 187o. 



My Dear Sir : — You have doubtless read Mr. Saunders' reply to your observations in the 2n(l No. of your book. 

 Not very satisfactory to you, I presume, and not very creditable to Saunders. 



The reply, liowever, recalls to my memory a circumstance which occurred now about a year since, and wlilch is 

 strongly illustrative of Saunders' supercilious behavior, as I deem it. 



Delieving him to have access to better libraries and larger collections than were within my reach, and further- 

 more induced by the invitation extended to amateurs in columns of the Canadian Entomologist, to send their collec- 

 tions to the Society for determination, I sent by the hand of a personal friend a box of insects with the proper request. 



Not being sure that either Mr. Baynes Keed or Mr. Saunders was in London, I requested my friend to deliver 

 the box to either party. 



I did not feel quite sure of my friend, so after waiting a couple of months, without receiving anj' notice of the 

 receipt of the box, I wrote both to Keed and Saunders enquiring if they had received such box. No answer came 

 from cither. I then caused enquiries to be made of ni}- friend as to whom the box had been delivered, and the 

 answer came, "to Mr. Saunders, on the day after my arrival in London." I again waited, perhaps another month, 

 but no box, or acknowledgement of its receipt, arrived. 



I then wrote again to Saunders, stating all the circumstances, and requesting return of box, but up to this mo- 

 ment no reply or notice of any kind has been received. 



As I am Agent here for the Entomologist, and have certainly done something toward extending its circulation, 

 I call this rather cavalier treatment, while even towards a stranger I think Mr. Saunders' conduct, (to use his own 

 words,) " to be unworthy a naturalist or a gentleman." Y'ours, truly, 



W." V. ANDREWS. 



Y''on are at liberty to make any use you please of this note. 



It is rejiorted that Commander Greer of the Tigress, the vessel which sailed a short tinic 

 since in search of the crew of the Polaris, has said that there is to be no time wasted pickling 

 fish, bottling bugs, &c. ; that the expedition will attend only to the object of its mission — the 

 finding of the Polaris. If he even thought so, it is a disgrace to give utterance to such expres- 

 sions, for, if but one new fact in science were attained, what, in comparison, are whole heca- 

 tombs of f)altry human lives, ,which, as one flickers out, legions arise to fill the place. When 

 thousands have again and again been ignobly, ruthlessly, sacrificed in useless and foolish wars, 

 the offspring of insane ambition, Avhy should any one murmur at life endangered, or lost, in 

 the noble cause of science. 



*Cynthia Hampstediensis, Steph. 



fNymphidium Chimborazium, Bates. 



JPieris Zamboanga, Feld. 



^Lycaena Mahallakoena, Walker. 



IIGodartia Madagascariensis, Lucas, and Crenis Madagascariensis, Boisd. 



