THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
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NO TIME! 
Quis tuler it 6racchos t de seditione gucerentes ? 
Juvenal. 
Those who can laugh at small things, one 
ancl all, 
Show that their minds are despicably small. 
Anon. 
“No time ! No time ! the man of business 
cries ; 
“ Ledger and Cash-book claim and got it all — 
“ No time to dive into the 1 ologies ’ ; 
“ No time for aught Entomological ! ” 
Besides, he views, with a contempt sublime 
Those Mono-maniaCs who victimize, 
And call it scientific, every time, 
They catch a lot of ‘ little butterflies ’ ! 
Oh ! Master mind ! Oh ! "Wondrous intuition 
If ‘ little butterflies ' are quite beneath thee, 
What is becoming to thy high position ? 
What laurel boughs are green enough to 
wreath thee ? 
Canst thou become a patron of Astronomy ? 
And how would Sculpture meet thy views 
superior ? 
A certain proof stands in thy physiognomy 
That much may hide under a dull exterior. 
I once remember to have heard it stated, 
As an undoubted fact, that every poet 
Feels discontented with what he’s created 
Though his self-interest may refrain to 
show it. 
This system runs, I fancy, through all classes 
Wo hate our own, and like the stylo of others, 
No doubt the parson, whose discourse sur. 
passes 
The usual length, prefers his shorter brothers. 
Tho portrait-painter too, I should suppose, 
Would, if ho could, become a politician ; 
While, to descend a hit, the Roman nose 
Looks, with a secret envy on the Greciau. 
And here I find an easy explanation 
Of that assumption of superiority, 
Over the smaller objects of Creation, 
Shown by this egotistical minority. 
The man, who states his confident conviction 
That “ catching butterflies ’’ is quite below 
him, 
Never foresees the necessary infliction 
Of tho contempt of all wise men who hear 
him. 
For, when he states his stern disapprobation 
Of small things, in a scientific view, 
He’s issuing a sort of proclamation, 
That his own mind has narrow limits too. 
MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
Bowdon and Altrincham Entom- 
ological Society. 
On Thursday September 4. 1862. a 
public meeting was held, in celebra- 
tion of the Second Anniversary of the 
above Society, in the British School 
Boom, Ashley Boad, Bowdon. The 
proceedings commenced at 7-30 p. m, 
when, in spite of the rain which was 
descending very steadily, a consider- 
able audience was assembled. 
In the absence of the Bev. J. T. 
Whitehead, [Ainsworth] Dr. Morell, 
was moved into the chair ; the former 
gentleman being detained by sudden 
indisposition. 
The Chairman opened the pro- 
ceedings with some ablo remarks, 
tending to show the innumerable 
advantages to be derived from scien- 
tific pursuits, and particularly from 
Entomology 
