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lists of duplicates and desiderata, so did the 'Intelligencer;' the ' Substitute ' is to 

 contain notices of summer rambles, so did the ' Intelligencer.' As a substitute cannot 

 be identically the same with that for which it is substituted, it appears clear to me that 

 such a title will not do. — 2. What has the title 'Substitute' to do with Entomology? 

 I have always been led to suppose that the title of a book ought to have some slight 

 connection with its contents, but how the terms Substitution and Entomology can have 

 the most remote relation to each other, I am utterly at a loss to conceive ; it cannot, 

 therefore, be right to call a work entirely devoted to Entomology by a title which has 

 no reference whatever to that Science. Mr. Stainton must really forgive me, but it 

 seems to me to be mere pedantry to change the name at all: he says he has no time 

 to edit the ' Intelligencer' during the winter, but nevertheless, with the assistance of 

 others, he is able to bring out a periodical of a precisely similar nature, but which he 

 proposes to call by a different name: his only apparent reason for doing so is that the 

 winter periodical, not being entirely edited by himself, it is unworthy of the same 

 designation as its more favoured predecessor. I have strong doubts whether such a 

 reason will carry weight with entomologists in general. I do really hope that, between 

 now and the 25th of October, Mr. Stainton will rack his brains, and if he must change 

 the name, find something better than the one at present proposed. Let him call it 

 what he likes, but pray do not let us have so silly (I cannot help saying it) and 

 unmeaning a title as the 'Substitute.' Do let him "substitute" something else. — 

 H. Harpur Crewe; Shooters Hill, Kent, September 22, 1856. 



Reply to some of Mr. Ashivorth's Remarks in the ' Zoologist,' p. 5252. — " Indeed 

 it is a strange disposed time, but men may construe things after their fashion, clean 

 from the purpose of the things themselves," and thus make 'Much Ado about 

 Nothing' — a ' Tempest' in a tea-pot — but, as 'All's Well that Ends Well,' even in a 

 ' Comedy of Errors,' it can scarcely be ' Love's Labour Lost,' if we give and take 

 'Measure for Measure.' As I have not any desire to represent all the Lancashire 

 entomologists, particularly not the small section of them who, like Mr. Ash worth, 

 refuse to give any information, I take this opportunity to say so; neither have I 

 overlooked " one or two considerations," but Mr. Ash worth does not seem to know 

 that a generation ago Lancashire could boast of entomologists great in their day. 

 Has he never heard of Hobson, Donbevand, Crozier, Townley, Tinker, &c. &c, 

 who searched the moors and mosses before he was born, and to whom some of the 

 present Lancashire entomologists are deeply indebted for directing their steps in " the 

 way they should go ? '' My observations were never intended to " brag" over any one. 

 We were solicited to give our information ; and it so chanced that because we had 

 more to tell than was expected from countrymen we were called " braggarts." If Mr. 

 Ashworth will read the early part of my remarks again, he will then see what he ought 

 to have observed at first, viz., that it was intended as a reply to Mr. Stainton's erro- 

 neous statements, and to show other people that their remarks were incorrect; and, 

 admitting that we did " brag," we, like Mr. Ashworth 's " cousins," did a considerable 

 amount of work. As to Fraxini being considered British, the Lancashire men knew, 

 from the ' Zoologist' (Zool. 1515), that there was one specimen unquestionably British, 

 because it had got into a certain cabinet ; but they also know of several other speci- 

 mens, not sea-coast specimens, which will never be considered British by some people, 

 unless they have the good luck to fall into their hands. This feeling is not confined 

 to the small section to which Mr. Ashworth belongs in Lancashire, but exists in other 

 counties ; and the only way to get a new or supposed scarce species admitted as British 



