THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 176.] SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1860. [Price Id. 
A GOOD MOVE. 
Dr. Herrich -Schaffer has lately for- 
warded to us what seems designed as 
the commencement of a German ‘In- 
telligencer.’ It is entitled ‘ Covrespon- 
denzblatt fiir Sammler von Insecten, 
insbesondere von Schmetterlingen that 
is, ‘Journal for Insect-collectors, spe- 
cially for Collectors of Lepidoplera.’ 
From the last portion of the title, 
it would seem as though Lepidoptera 
are as popular in the “Fatherland” 
as here, and outstrip in attractiveness 
all the other orders combined. 
This new journal of eight pages is 
at present to appear monthly, but the 
enterprising proprietor proposes, should 
his project be successful, to bring the 
journal out fortnightly, or even weekly. 
We shall certainly be pleased if the 
last-named period is arrived at, as 
many uses of such a journal must 
ever remain latent unless it does ap- 
pear weekly. 
Offers of insects for exchange or 
for sale are inserted at a moderate 
charge. 
The price to subscribers for twelve 
numbers is one gulden, which appears 
to include its transmission throughout 
Germany post free. 
Dr. Herricli - Schaffer remarks that 
“ the demand for periodical ento- 
mological literature would appear to 
be supplied already by the Stettin 
‘ Entomologische Zeitung,’ the Berlin 
‘ Entomologische Zeitschrift,’ and the 
Vienna ‘ Monatschrift,’ but that the 
two former only appear quarterly, 
and that though the last-named is a 
monthly publication, yet all the three 
are more restricted to works of a 
purely scientific character.” 
“ The appearance in London of the 
‘Weekly Intelligencer’ first suggested 
to me,” continues Dr. H errich-Schaffer, 
“ the idea of establishing a similar 
journal for Germany, which, like its 
London prototype, without pretending 
to learned investigations, should serve 
as a medium of intercommunication 
for the amateurs and collectors of 
insects, who are probably quite as 
numerous in Germany as in Eng- 
land.” 
“We possess in the three above- 
named periodicals, and in the ‘ Lin- 
naea’ and some other works, more than 
sufficient for scientific and longer 
treatises, but for short notices on single 
species and genera, especially on points 
of difference between allied species, for 
observations on their local or periodical 
occurrence, or on their habits, and 
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