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however, to Chateaudun remained a pleasing event in my life, and 
from that time till his death I continued to be a frequent corre- 
spondent of Achille Guenée. He calledon mein Paris in March, 
1872, but as that was the last time I was in France I never saw 
him again. 
It is much to be regretted that Guenée never visited England ; 
his relations with Henry Doubleday were at one time so extremely 
intimate that I can conceive no greater enjoyment than for the 
two entomologists to have met at Epping. At the time of Henry 
Doubleday’s serious illness in 1871, Guenée wrote to me, very 
anxiously inquiring as to his state of health, and assuring me 
that the Epping entomologist still remained “ placé au premier 
rang dans mon estime et dans mon affection.” 
Perhaps when the Channel Tunnel is completed foreigners 
will be more ready to visit us. The Continent being so much 
larger than our island, it seems to the Continental entomologists 
only natural that we should cross the Channel to visit them, but 
it scarcely ever occurs to them to come to our shores, and thus 
they debar themselves from much conversational interchange of 
thought, by which our Science would assuredly be benefited. 
Thirty-five years ago there was penned by the late James 
Francis Stephens, then in his fifty-fifth year, a note on a “ Plan 
for an Entomological Journal.” This appeared in the ‘ Zoologist’ 
of October, 1847, and to many other entomologists besides myself 
this simple note has formed an era in our lives. 
The origin of Mr. Stephens’ note was this—he had just found 
in his collection two species of Coleoptera, which had been over- 
looked, and which were new to the British list. The specimens 
had been in his collection for many years, and he had no means 
of ascertaining where or when they had been captured. One, at 
any rate, he believed had been in his possession for upwards of 
thirty-one years! Who has not had similar experience ?—that 
of finding that he had mixed together two allied species, and ° 
afterwards, when their distinctness has been pointed out, of 
being perplexed to say when or where each had been taken ? 
‘“Most of the journals hitherto proposed” (wrote Mr. 
Stephens) ‘‘ presuppose the journalist to possess a slight know- 
ledge of Entomology; but the plan I suggest is unencumbered 
with any such supposition, and has the additional advantage of 
