THE ENTOMOLOGISTS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 174.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1860. [Price Id. 
‘THE ANNUAL.’ 
We announced, a few weeks ago, the 
publication of the ‘ Entomologist’s An- 
nual for 1860 , but we are sorry to 
find that the immediate supply of the 
volume was not equal to the first 
pressing demand, and that consequently 
some persons had to apply for it more 
than once, and some did not obtain a 
copy till the middle of the present 
month. 
No one regrets this circumstance 
more than ourselves; but we trust our 
readers will not unduly blame us for 
the delay, which is mainly attributable 
to the existence of a bust of Shak- 
speare in the Church of Stratford- 
upon-Avon. The connection between 
this bust and the insufficient supply 
of the ‘Annual’ is not at first ap- 
parent, and therefore we volunteer the 
following explanation. 
It must be borne in mind that the 
‘Annual’ contains a coloured plate; 
this plate has first to be engraved, 
then printed, and then coloured. We 
do not print it in colours, as the 
manipulation required is a more deli- 
cate process, and the plate has to 
be coloured by hand. This takes time, 
and, speaking in round numbers, we 
believe the colourer is not able to 
accomplish more than a hundred a 
week, taking the necessary pains with 
them in order to ensure satisfaction to 
the purchasers of the ‘ Annual.’ 
Our readers will be able to make 
their calculations from the above ex- 
planation, and will find that the plates 
ought to be in the colourer’s hands 
early in November, in order that a 
sufficient number of copies of the 
volume may be bound up and de- 
livered to the publisher’s by Christmas 
time. Now early in November we 
saw a proof of the plate, then all but 
finished ; but just at that period our 
Artist had to visit the birth-place of 
Sbakspeare, in order to make a sketch 
from a bust in the Church there. 
The interior of a Church on a week- 
day in November is not perhaps the 
most cosy and warm place one could 
select, nor is it wonderful that, whilst 
thus employed in the delineation of 
the bust of Shakspeare on a raw No- 
vember day, our Artist caught a bad 
cold, which confined him to the house 
for a fortnight, and thus led to a 
serious delay in the delivery of the 
‘ Annual ’ plates to the hands of the 
colourer. 
We never had such a mischance 
before, and we trust it will not occur 
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