THE 
ENTOMOLOGIST. 
“ ENTOMA QUID QUID AGTJNT NOSTRI EST FARRAGO LIBELLI.” 
No. 1.] 
SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1862. 
[Price 2d. 
UNION IS STRENGTH. 
nine months there'has been 
no Weekly Entomological News- 
paper. What have Entomologists 
learned daring these nine months? 
Have they learned to do without a 
paper, or, when they have one, to 
support and value it more ? We 
fail to appreciate many good things, 
because we were never without them. 
In the first number of the Entomol- 
ogist our task is to suggest a few 
lessons to be learned from the decease 
of the late Intelligences. 
Now everyone knows that in our 
journal there is sure to be something 
that somebody will not like. If 
exchange lists are inserted, one class 
thinks u the paper would be better 
without, and, if they are not, another 
class complains of their omission. If 
prominence is given to scientific dis- 
quisition, some think it out of place, 
and, if neglected, some think its 
want fatal. Now can we suit the 
tastes of all ? — Obviously not. We 
throw ourselves then, on the for- 
bearance of Entomologists, and ask, 
“ Ho not expect too much,” If you, 
Sir, think exchange objectionable, be 
good enough not to read that portion 
of Our pages which contains offers ; 
and if you, Sir, are interested only 
in abstrusely scientific lore, do 
not, — because we have little of it — 
withdraw your support, else, how 
can we ever have any considerable 
amount? -Our object is not to please 
one class alone, but to have some- 
thing in every number for each.” 
Let not him who is so well acquaint- 
ed with the deeper mysteries of 
nature, as to care little to hear of her 
surface facts, condemn us because we 
try to find something for the novice, 
and let not him who is only capable, as 
yet, of appreciating “simples ” be dis- 
contented if the great men condescend 
to make us their oracle. Cannot the 
lion and the lamb lie down together ? 
We repeat “Union is Strength.” 
Entomologists must not only qpntri- 
bute willingly to our pages, but must, 
if we are to be successful, do this in 
a friendly spirit. Ear better to let 
a few mistakes remain uncorrected, 
than to correct them by a fierce dis- 
pute. It shall be our part to keep 
out everything that we perceive to 
be personal, but, however we may 
endeavour to do this, something ob- 
jectionable will, no doubt, occasion- 
ally dribble through, Now we appeal 
