THE ENTOMOLOGISTS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 137.] SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1859 [Price Id. 
THE UNIVERSITIES. 
To notice the existence of the En- 
tomological Societies at Oxford and 
Cambridge, and to call attention to 
the difficulties they have had, and 
still have, to contend with, and not 
to call attention to what they have 
accomplished, would be an ungracious 
task. 
On the 7th of November, 1857, there 
appeared in the columns of the 1 In- 
telligencer’ a demand for some guide 
to the pronunciation of scientific names. 
This subject was taken up rather warmly 
by several entomologists, and by Christ- 
mas, 1857, a proposition was made to 
publish the required “ Gradus ” by 
the co-operation of the two Ento- 
mological Societies of Oxford and 
Cambridge. This proposal found many 
supporters, and it has now resulted 
in the publication of a neat 8vo of 
118 pages, entitled ‘An Accentuated 
List of the British Lepidoptera, with 
Hints on the Derivation of the 
Names.” A notice of this work has 
already appeared in our pages (see 
‘Intelligencer,’ vol. v. p. 182) ; yet, for 
the more general enlightenment of our 
readers who do not possess this “ List,” 
we proceed to make a few observa- 
tions. 
The volume before us commences 
with a “ List of authors and nomen- 
clators whose names are adopted in the 
Catalogue,” and this extends to forty- 
four pages, coutaining biographical 
and bibliographical notices of the 
various authors, some of which — as, 
for instance, those of Fabricius and 
Linne — are rather lengthy, extending 
to four pages or move. There is 
certainly much in this introductory 
portion which should be serviceable 
to the rising generation, as there are 
few students but will find their aims 
elevated by the attentive perusal of 
biographies. 
“ Lives of great men all remind us,” 
&c., &c. 
We next arrive at the body of the 
work, where one page is devoted to 
the rules of pronunciation, and then 
the list commences, and as a sample 
of the work we cite the following: — 
“ Papilio, L., Papilio, papilio, a butter- 
fly. Linnaeus first attempted to com- 
bine in some degree Natural and Civil 
History, by attaching the names of 
personages, illustrious in their day, to 
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