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THE WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST. 
admire even while we condemn, the 
eternal garrulity of some men of 
science who are for ever mooting anew 
some long-settled question and invi- 
ting discussion about nothing at all ? 
The “ literature of science ” as Dr. 
Hagen calls it, would he dull reading 
indeed if it consisted of nothing but 
profoundly scientific lore. 
But there may be too much of a 
good thing; and the question which 
we should like to suggest to our read- 
ers is this, — is there not now a-days 
rather too much of this “ small talk ” 
among Entomologists. ? It is our 
opinion that too large a proportion of 
“light reading” in our scientific 
journals, tends to draw off the mind 
from the weightier questions at issue. 
Such disputes as the much vexed one 
of L. Quercus and Callunce, come, we 
think, under this head — “small talk,” 
and had much better slumber, until 
some Entomologist can throw some 
clearer light on the subject ; while 
discoveries and observations relating 
to insects about which so much yet 
remains to be known, as the Tineina, 
the Eupitheciw, the Tipulidw &c, 
have much more important bearing 
on Entomology, than those more tri- 
vial questions which serve rather for 
amusement than instruction. 
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