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dred mind is there, one whose tastes 

 are like ours, who. can appreciate our 

 pursuit, the pleasure of an excursion is 

 very greatly enhanced. Many people 

 take a holiday once a year, or once in 

 two years, and perhaps idle it away at 

 a watering place or other fashionable 

 resort. We do not want to decry a 

 married man spending a week hy the 

 sea side, or in the country with his wife 

 and family, but after having done that, 

 if lie have another week to spare, how 

 pleasant it would be to go to Hannbch, to 

 the New Forest, to Sherwood, to the Isle 

 of Man, or some other of these far 

 famed collecting grounds. But for a 

 social man — and we believe all Entom- 

 ologists are social beings, to go alone 

 to a strange place, he has to be very 

 enthusiastic over his favourite pursuit 

 before he can altogether relish such a 

 trip. Besides the companionship, a 

 second person would make the trip less 

 costly. Conveyances and other et 

 ceteras cost no more for two than one. 

 Then there is always something to be 

 learned. It is not possible for any one 

 to have been collecting many years, 

 without knowing something, that few 

 but himself does ; yet he is perhaps 

 quite unaware he has any special know- 

 ledge. If we can help in this matter 

 we shall be only too glad. An announce- 

 ment like the following will always 

 find a place in our colums, Mr. So 

 and So purposes to spend a week at 

 Bannoch, collecting Lepidoptera, and 

 would be glad of a companion of 

 similar tastes ; or Mr. Blank is going 

 to collect Lepidoptera in the New 



Forest, from the 7th to the 14th August, 

 and will be glad to meet other col- 

 lectors. His head quarter will be 



&c. or still less pretensions, Mr. 



Well Known is going to the Cheshire 



| Sandhills on of to colect 



j Nyssia zonaria, and will be glad to 

 | show the locality to any unu who does 

 not know it. 



Small Societies, such as We recom- 

 | mended to be formed in No. 51, might 

 also arrange excursions in another way. 

 j Working-men generally, cannot afford 

 ! a trip to a distant place very often. 

 I There is not only the actual cost of the 

 | trip, but the wages not earned while 

 away, to take into consideration. But 

 they could spare something towards 

 the expenses of some person going for 

 the benefit of the whole. A dozen 

 members could easily make up the 

 amount needed to send one of their 

 number to Bannoch, or other famous 

 locality, for a week or more, with the 

 understanding that the whole of his 

 captures were to be shared among those 

 who subscribed the amount. A trust- 

 worthy and experienced man should be 

 selected, and he will certainly have a 

 bad time, if he does not collect what 

 will make a good return for the cost of 

 the trip. If he has a good knowledge 

 of other orders besides Lepidoptera, so 

 much the better. If there are not 

 enough collectors in the neighbourhood, 

 a notice in our pages might answer 

 the purpose. The Entomolo- 

 gical Society are arranging to send one 

 of their members to such a place to 

 collect insects. They will be glad to 



