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THE YOUNG- NATURALIST. 



merits, as they at present occur to us, you 

 must not suppose them to be as unalterable 

 as the laws of the Medes and Persians are 

 said to have been. Should we see any 

 advantage to be gained by altering our 

 plans, or should opportunity arise for 

 introducing matter of greater interest, we 

 shall gladly avail ourselves of the chance, 

 and space will always be reserved for the 

 observations and notes of captures of our 

 readers. 



We are desirous at an early date of 

 laying before you our ideas with regard 

 to the Exchange Club spoken of in our 

 first number. In the meantime we shall 

 be glad to hear from any of our readers 

 who regard the project favourably, with 

 their views as to the best means of making 

 it successful. We shall be sure to get 

 some useful hints how to carry it into 

 practice, and we cannot see why that 

 which is such an useful adjunct to Botan- 

 ical studies cannot be made as valuable 

 in Entomology, or other branches of 

 Natural History. With the help of our 

 readers we will endeavour to make it so. 



Our older and more experienced collectors 

 will be planning their excursions here and 

 there, settling what species they are to 

 try for, and mapping out the plans for 

 the year. Will our less experienced and 

 younger readers, who have not the know- 

 ledge that would enable them to lay their 

 plans so carefully in advance, try, by extra 

 energy and assiduity, to make up for their 

 want of experience ? Mr. Gregson advises 

 you all to keep Journals. If you so label 

 your captures and record them in a journal, 

 that when you know what they are you 

 also know, when and where they were 



obtained ; you have made it easier to get 

 more of the same species, if you ever want 

 them again. By desultory collecting you, 

 may get odd specimens of many kinds, butJ 

 your knowledge of your collecting groundsif 

 will be little improved, unless you goP 

 systematically to work — in such a wayi, 

 that you know afterwards where every,', 

 specimen was obtained. When you have4 

 learned where the various species occur?, 

 you will not need to record every onel 

 separately, but unless you do so at thei 

 beginning you may be years in learning^ 

 what you might otherwise know in youii 

 first season. Do not think this too muchf 

 trouble, you will find that it saves much! 

 labor afterwards. Enough of preaching I 

 Where are our nets ? Let us out tcj 

 the lanes and endeavour to take Bupm 

 eaprwia as he flits about the leafiest 

 hedges. Who will be first 1 



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