THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
21 
EXCHANGE. 
Exchange . — I have a number of pupae 
of Clostera Reclusa which I would he 
glad to exchange for pup® of the follow- 
ing 
C. Elpenor, 
P. Machaon, 
S. Tili®, 
S. Ligustri. 
Or larv® of the following ; — 
H. Dominula, 
A. Villica, 
C. Nupta, 
E. Russula, 
N. Plantaginis. 
If applicants receive no answer in a 
week they may conclude that their 
offers are rejected. — Wm. Myers, San- 
derson Street, Workington, Cumberland ; 
April 14, 1861. 
JOURNAL OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
To the Editor of the * Intelligencer,' 
Sir, — I am very glad to find that 
Mr. Douglas seems to feel that he was 
hasty and inconsiderate in stating that 
the ‘Journal of Entomology’ was “a 
mistake,” and did not sooner remember 
his own quotation. 
Many persons who are accused say 
they could disprove the case, but if they 
do not do so one understands it simply 
means, “ I know I am wrong, but do not 
like to admit it.” Does he mean to say 
that Mr. F. Smith did not, a short time 
ago, withdraw his paper and print it in 
the ‘ Zoologist,’ and that Mr. Smith and 
Mr. Wollaston have not accompanied the 
papers they have sent in this year with 
letters making a condition before they 
are read that they are to he printed in a 
short time? and I do not know how a 
journal can fall into arrears that has no 
fixed time of appearance. 
My observations, I beg to say, are not 
dictated by any personal feeling against 
Mr. Douglas, whom I respect as a friend 
and a man, and estimate for what he 
has done in Entomology, but against the 
system of attempting to prevent compe- 
tition in Science and in the publication 
of scientific papers, where it is as useful as 
it is in trade, — a subject in which I have 
considerable experience and take much 
interest. 
Is no one to write on any subject 
unless he has a pecuniary interest in 
it? Surely Mr. Douglas cannot want a 
stronger demoustration on the part of 
those Members of the Society who started 
the ‘Journal’ than the fact that, after 
having subscribed to the funds of the 
Society for years, they found it necessary 
to incur fresh expenses and put forth a 
journal at their own cost for papers which 
the President of the Society thinks ought 
to be sent to the Society, where, to my 
knowledge, several papers read some 
time ago are waiting to be printed. 
I am now told the real difficulty is 
want of funds ; if this be the case it is 
surely a reason why an entomologist 
should admire the zeal of the Member's 
who started the ‘ Journal,’ instead of 
saying it is “ a mistake,” and throw cold 
water on them and it. 
I am, sir. 
Yours very truly, 
John Edward Gray. 
British Museum, 
April 5, 1861. 
