THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 258.] SATUEDAY, SEPTEMBEE 14, 1861. [Price W. 
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WILL 
HOT BE COHTIHVED 
AETER THE CLOSE OF 
THE PEESENT VOLUME. 
EEGRETS. 
“ I, for one,” writes a correspondent 
in the West of England, “shall regret 
the absence of this little paper; and 
are all those who read and relish this 
little medium of interchange of thoughts 
to be taken of no account ? ” And then 
he adds, “ Let us have less about 
Mieros ; as it has lately been, nineteen- 
twentieths of its readers care nothing 
about the leaf-miners.” 
Another correspondent, in the North, 
writes as follows : — “ I am so very sorry 
we are to lose our little serial; it has 
so long been looked for as a part of 
our weekly news that it will seem 
strange at first to be obliged to do 
without it.” 
We were prepared for these and 
similar expressions of regret, but regrets 
are unavailing. 
The history of the birth, growth and 
decease of this little journal would 
occupy too much space for insertion 
here ; but possibly they may serve to 
contribute a brief memoir in the pages 
of the next ‘Entomologist’s Annual.’ 
Of course we have already received 
many enquiries as to the welfare of the 
‘Annual.’ When one of a family is 
seen wasting away with decline one 
naturally feels more anxiety concerning 
the health of the other members of the 
family. All we can say on this subject 
is that we have applied the stethoscope, 
and that the lungs of the ‘Annual’ 
appear at present perfectly sound. 
Entomology in England is passing 
through a phase of depression: we 
doubt much if we could now make out 
a list of 500 English entomologists : to 
what extent this may have arisen from 
the Volunteer movement, the deleterious 
eflfects of which have been so great, 
it is impossible to say; but this is 
evident, that as action and reaction 
are equal and opposite, and as a few 
years back Entomology in England was 
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