THE ENTOMOLOGISTS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 134.] SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1859 [Price 1 d. 
THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF 
FRANCE. 
On Wednesday next the “ Seance ex- 
traordinaire,” or annual Convocation of 
the French Entomological Society, will 
take place. 
The Meeting will commence its 
labours at half-past six ; so that, in 
fact, it would appear to us very much 
like a scientific soiree , only with no 
tea. Nothing but talk. 
The programme of the Meeting is 
tolerably extensive, and every Member 
of the French Society is requested to 
express his opinion viva voce, or to 
forward it in writing to the Secretary ; 
but surely now that torture is abolished 
in civilized Europe, the Secretary is 
not obliged to read every communica- 
tion he receives. 
The first proposition for discussion is 
the utility of the provincial Members 
being more specially occupied with the 
local Fauna of their respective depart- 
ments. The Lepidoptera of Northum- 
berland and Durham have been cata- 
logued, and also those of Lancashire; 
why should we not have catalogues of 
those in the neighbourhood of Mont- 
pelier, Bordeaux, Brest and Stras- 
bourg? The utility of this proposition 
is so self-evident that we should fancy 
a long discussion upon it could hardly 
be necessary, but probably certain ento- 
mologists will then be specially selected 
to prepare these local lists. 
The second point for discussion is 
one that is to us of special interest, 
and we hope our occupations will allow 
of our reaching Paris in time to take 
part in it. It is on some of the laws 
of Entomological Nomenclature, and 
principally on the danger of changing 
the names of genera or species ill-spelt 
or wrongly compounded by authors. 
Will not the Societies of Oxford and 
Cambridge send a representative to this 
Congress of Paris to advocate their 
views? Poor Olivier! may he not yet 
sleep in peace? 
The next subject is the perusal of 
“Memoires” which may have been for- 
warded to the Soeiete on the subject 
of the genus Eupilhecia. This knotty 
point will not, however, be discussed by 
the whole body of Members (fancy 
meeting a hundred entomologists all 
learned in the genus Eupilhecia !) ; for 
the Society have considered that the 
seance would be too short for the due 
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