194 * DECEMBER. 



distinguished Entomologists, but in this he labours 

 under a great mistake — 



' Freely ye have received, freely give ;' 



and he will find that the practice is to give away 

 duplicates to others who may be in want of the re- 

 spective species, without any stipulation with regard to 

 exchanges. 



" Directly he begins to ( drive a bargain' he gets a 

 bad character, and ' mercenary/ ' greedy,' ' stingy,' 

 are a few of the epithets that get freely applied to him 

 behind his bach, 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." (Entomologist's Annual, 

 1856, page 12.) 



In conclusion, I would remind my readers never to 

 promise to send any particular insect to a correspondent 

 without being certain of their power of doing so ; never 

 promise in prospective, as it is ten chances to one you 

 may not be able to keep your promise : I mean thus, 

 " When the ivy is in bloom I shall be able to send you 

 petrificatOj semibrunnea, &c." How do you know 

 that when the ivy is in bloom you will be able to ob- 

 tain such species ? and if you do not, and therefore do 

 not send them, you create suspicion, however much 

 you might have felt yourself able, at the time you 

 made the promise, to keep it. Never deceive a cor- 

 respondent by any falsehood or misrepresentation, but 

 " Be just and fear not." 



THE END. 



