136 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 
of a new specific name. Surely Mr. Andrews is expecting Mr. Grote to 
do a little too much when he allows him to perform all this labour in 
identifying a particular species of Sesia, and then proposes: that some one 
else should publish the results ! / 
After all, however, it seems to us a very great misfortune that so much 
importance—so much glory, in fact—is supposed to be acquired by a 
naturalist by the mere giving a new name to an insect, and the appending 
of his own to it. Were this kind of renown less sought after—were there 
more generally diffused amongst us a humble desire to benefit science and 
increase the sum of human knowledge—we should not be oppressed with 
such a burden of synonyms as Entomology now groans under—infinite 
labour would be spared to the conscientious student,—dire confusion and 
distraction would not so often await the efforts of the pains taking 
observer. 
ECON O: MC ALLEN Ore © EO 1Gave 
BY PROFESSOR BELL, OF BELLEVILLE. 
It is distinctly within my knowledge that many persons who are not 
overburdened with too large a share of worldly wealth, are strongly 
inclined to make the study of Entomology and the collecting of insect 
specimens an employment for their leisure hours, were it not for fear of 
the expense they believe it necessary to incur for cabinet, cork, pins, &c. 
Now, the cabinet and cork may be dispensed with—in fact, I have neither 
the one nor the other myself. I keep my collection in boxes, nineteen by 
twenty-four inches, outside size, of three-fourth inch pine board planed 
down to about five-eighth inch, by two and a quarter inches deep ; the 
backs are made of clean basswood planed smooth, and half an inch 
thick, nailed on to the sides. On the upper edge of the two sides and on 
one end I fix a slip of thin pine, so as to leave eighteen and an eighth 
inches clear between the edges, and about one eighth for a groove at the 
bottom. Over each of these I nail firmly a slip of pine a quarter of an 
inch thick and a little wider than the thickness of the sides, so as to 
project over the inside slightly. | This forms a groove for a light of glass 
eighteen by twenty-four inches to slide in, and the groove at the bottom 
receives the lower edge. The top is left open and the upper edge of the 
