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not bearing from me within ten days will 
please conclude their offers are not 
required. — Dr. Gill, 5, Cambridge 
Place, Regent’s Park, London, N.W. 
AMATEUR DEALERS. 
To the 'Editor of the * Intelligencer ' 
Sir, — While the giants of your pe- 
riodical have been doing battle on the 
“ Exchange ” question, or, as it is dis- 
paragingly termed, the “barter” ques- 
tion, we little men have been trembling 
lest the final decision should dip the 
wrong side, though, pending the contest, 
we have been availing ourselves of the 
means your pages offer for obtaining — 
honourably obtaining — species we never 
can expect to get in any other way. 
Now, alas! from the recent article in 
your serial, this privilege is about to die ! 
This may be of little or no importance 
to those who can travel when and whither 
they list, but to those who by great 
diligence and patience can procure only 
the species common in their neighbour- 
hood, perhaps a village or heath, and 
who have always thought that what they 
have captured and prepared by great 
painstaking is a fair exchange fur spe- 
cies caught under similar circumstances 
by others in distant places, — to such, I 
say, your announcement is a very grave 
affair. 
You will, of course, never suppose I 
am an advocate for the idle or avaricious 
dealer, who gets by the gross what he 
m<iy sell by the dozen for the abomin- 
able purpose of making (may I name it 
in your hearing ?) lepidoplerous pictures ! 
that vile trade cannot be spoken of in 
terms too severe. 
Hoping some new channel may be 
opened for the continual and fraternal 
accommodation of this patient and stu- 
dious entomologist, in lieu of the one 
so long enjoyed, but now about to be 
closed , 
I remain. 
Your constant reader, 
V. 
August 26, 1861. 
Sir, — I have only just seen Mr. C. G. 
Barrett’s letter in the ‘ Intelligencer ’ of 
last Saturday, and have not yet seen the 
letter of the previous week on which he 
animadverts. I lose not a moment in 
adding my testimony to that of Mr. 
Barrett in support of the character he 
most truly and most justly assigns to 
Mr. Edwin Birchall for liberality as an 
entomologist. I have never known a 
gentleman of a more generous and 
liberal spirit in all matters entomological, 
and I am confident there has been some 
mistake on the part of any one who 
could for a moment attribute any other 
character to him. 
I am. Sir, 
Your very obedient servant. 
Rev. F. 0. Moreis. 
London, Aug. 19, 1861. 
MOSES HARRIS. 
The writings of Moses Harris are, on 
the whole, much scarcer and much less 
known than is generally imagined. The 
libraries of the Linnean and Royal 
Societies possess none of Harris’s works. 
A complete series of all the editions is 
nowhere to be found nor recorded iu any 
bibliography. 
Respecting the life of Harris I know 
little more than what he himself says in 
the preface to the first edition of his 
‘Aurelian,’ iu 1766. He had then col- 
