THE ENTOMOLOGISTS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 249.] SATUEDAY, JULY 13, 1861. [Price Iti. 
A FALSE ALARM. 
It would appear that the proposed 
migration of the Entomological Society 
of London to Gerrard Street, Soho, is 
now completely at an end. 
The Society remains, at least for 
the present, in its actual locality, 12, 
Bedford Eow, Holborn. 
The Society has been intending to 
move for the last two years, but has 
now thought better of it; at least, we 
suppose so, for the saying is that 
“second thoughts are best.” 
The last Meeting of the Society 
was most numerously attended; every 
seat was occupied, and some who 
were not disposed to stand the whole 
evening were glad to sit down on the 
floor. 
This state of aSairs is not altogether 
pleasant, but what can be done? 
In the House of Commons, on Mon- 
day week, Mr. Layard enquired whether 
the Government were prepared to place 
plans before the House for the erec- 
tion of suitable buildings on the site of 
Burlington House. “ Several years ago,” 
he remarked, “ that site was purchased 
at a cost of £180,000, and up to the 
present moment nothing had been done 
to render it available for public pur- 
poses.” He thought “ the time had 
come when accommodation should be 
furnished at Burlington House for the 
various public institutions of science 
and art.” 
Mr. H. Seymour enquired “ what the 
Government proposed to do with the 
main part of Burlington House ; the 
Royal Society was lodged merely in 
one of the side pavilions.” 
Colonel Sykes asked “ whether it was 
intended or not to carry out the plan 
for the accommodation of the different 
Societies for which the site of Bur- 
lington House was purchased.” 
Mr. Cowper, in reply, said “ that 
every inch of Burlington House was 
now occupied most advantageously for 
the public by the Societies having 
claims on the Government. No final 
decision had yet been come to by the 
Government on many plans before it 
for appropriating the site and garden 
of Burlington House; but he hoped 
in a short time that decision would be 
made.” 
And there the subject dropped. 
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