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might with very little trouble obtain by their own efforts . 



Of these two classes, members of the first delight 

 most in conversing about the objects they study, 

 while those of the second prefer to show you their 

 collection : the former will travel miles to see their 

 favourites in their native spot, but you must be very 

 cautious in imparting the locality of any rare species 

 to the latter, for so long as they can catch or obtain 

 specimens they think little of extermination. 



There are, however, entomologists who hold a 

 position between these two a class I am happy to 

 say which is increasing every day ; they make a 

 collection, it is true, but it is quite subordinate to 

 the study of the insects themselves. When showing 

 this collection to you they will point with pride to 

 such and such a species not because they gave five 

 or ten pounds for it, or because Mr. So-and-so has 

 not yet been able to get one but they tell you they 

 caught it themselves deep in the mountain world of 

 Wales or Scotland, and then come welcome little 

 episodes of their travels, how up in the North they 

 found themselves quite out of the civilized world and 

 couldn't even get bread except the postman brought 

 it, and that meat was utterly unknown, and that if 

 owing to the forewarnings of a friend they had not 

 provided themselves with a few tins of Australian 

 meat, they might just as well have been in the back- 

 woods of America. * Or again they point out a 

 species they have reared from the egg, and conse- 

 quently they are in possession of knowledge unknown 

 to the rest of the world, for it may safely be said 



* This was actually the case with one of my entomological 

 friends. 



