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Ven. Better avoid it, the sarcasm would be too biting : 

 a party, headed by Kirby, Spence, Children, Horsfield, Yarrel, 

 and Sykes ! ! 



Ent. How infinitely ridiculous ! I know no men more 

 completely above all such paltry feehng. 



Ven. Nothing can possibly be more liberal, than the 

 mode in which the affairs of the Society have been conducted. 

 One thing we must insist on — collection and library — before 

 any publication is thought of. 



Erro. I understand that there are some members publi- 

 cation mad. I was told of a paper, ready cut and dried, by 

 our friend Chrysis-cyanea, as Ambulator terms him ; as it was 

 about myself, I obtained a copy of the title, (reads from a 



slip of paper.) " Notes upon the impropriety of Mr. 's 



placing the double dot over the u in Straus, and omitting it 

 over the u in Durckheim, at page - — of the Entomological 

 Magazine; together with philosophical remarks upon the 

 affinities of my new genus Hypothenemanogarthroides, by 

 A. E. J. , Esq. F.L.S. &c." 



Ven. An excellent quiz. 



Ent. It is the rock on which the Society will probably 

 split. I have induced ten individuals to join the Society ; all, 

 except one of whom, inquired whether we should publish that 

 kind of rubbish. I assured them not. 



Amb. The president is a man of sense, and a man of spirit ; 

 — he never will — 



Ent. Some thanks to me for proposing him. Eh ? 



Ven. Yes : the Society owes you a vote of thanks. There 

 is no individual in England so well adapted for the chair. 



Amb. He never will encourage such rubbish. 



Ent. Not he : — Come, Ambulator, we wait. 



Amb. What ?— Me ?— Oh !— " Success to the Study of the 

 Economy of Nature." 



Omnes. " Success," &c. 



Amb. I shall be understood as expressing my admiration 

 of the great revealer of Nature's secrets, when I merely say. 

 Success to that branch of our study. I can imagine nothing- 

 more beautiful in poetry than the first of his Sapphics. 



Hued like a rainbow, &c. 



is exquisite. 



