ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 475 



" We have already stated that the Council considered it essential 

 to the credit of the Society, that it should publish its own Trans- 

 actions, and have given the reasons for their coming to that reso- 

 lution. If any doubt could have been entertained of their vs^isdom 

 in so doing, as far as the character of the Transactions might be 

 affected by association, it is effectually removed by the conduct of 

 the editors of the Entomological Magazine themselves, in having 

 admitted that farrago of nonsense, which, under the title of Colloquia 

 Entomologica, stands as the head of their present number. So 

 miserable an attempt at wit, and so ridiculous a parade of learning, 

 throws even Isla's Domine himself into the back ground. ' Lord ! 

 Lord! it was a very Gabilon (Babylon). More than one full hour 

 were we at it, hand to hand ; and to every word I said, he produced, 

 directly, such heaps of proofs and quotations, all in Latin, that it 

 seemed for all the world as if he carried them in the breast-pocket 

 of his large cloak.' ^ Why do they not practise the motto they 

 adopted — yvioQi aeavTov 1 



" The following passage occurs at page 333 of the Colloquia : — 

 " ' Ent. I am firmly persuaded, from what I see of the working 

 members of its Council, that the Entomological Society will retard, 

 not advance, entomology.' 



*' Very civil ! However, spectemur agendo ! 

 " As to the hope (p. 332) that ' the Entomological Society 

 would have been the means of Uniting entomologists into one body, 

 and called forth kindlier feelings among us,' we are not conscious 

 of its having failed in that desirable object, nor do we know of any 

 unkindly feeling connected with the Society, except those too 

 palpably entertained by the conductors of the Entomological 

 Magazine. 



" And why do they entertain them ? We leave them to answer 

 that question as they may, and shall merely state the fact, that their 

 wish to 'publish the Memoirs read before the Entomological Society, 

 in their own journal, was not acceded to by the Council f. 



*' We have now ended our unpleasant task, and shall not think it 

 necessary to bestow any further notice on the Entomological 

 Magazine, — whether it flatter or abuse, praise or condemn us." 



Is it dignified of a society to sit in committee and solemnly 

 concoct an attack like this on a private undertaking ? Admit- 

 ting that the facts are sound, and the conclusions logical; 



•, This quotation stands as a foot note in the Transactions. 



^ Neither was it ever entertained by the editor of this Magazine. To oblige 

 the Society, we offered to publish gratuitously a few of its early papers, knowing 

 it could not afford a journal of its own. 



