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THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
you appear to have mistaken the passage 
in the Preface about the pronunciation 
of Cassiope and such words. You say 
that you shall contiuue to pronounce it 
Cassi'ope, “ in spite of instructions here 
given to pronounce it Cass'iope.” But the 
passage you refer to leaves it an open 
question : — “ But this point, on which so 
great difference of opinion exists, we 
leave each entomologist to decide for 
himself.” 
4. I heartily concur with the recom- 
mendation, “ that it is advisable to main- 
tain a uniformity of termination through- 
out each tribe to assist the memory ; and 
I congratulate the Tortrices, the Pyrales 
and the Tineae on their recovery of this 
advantage in Mr. Doubleday’s new ‘ List’ 
(awarded to them, one would think, on 
account of their diminutive size), while 
I must still condole with the Geometrae, 
whose more elevated position and in- 
creased political importance must be paid 
for, it seems, by the usual drawbacks of 
dissension and party spirit. 
It is certainly to be regretted that some 
species have been omitted from the ‘ List,’ 
either intentionally or by mistake. I am 
not aware of any among the Macros, but 
in the Micros I may mention Mixodia 
Bouchardana (p. 65), Stigmonota inter- 
ruplana and Heegerana (p. 71), Catoplria 
parvulana (p. 72), besides some of the 
Tines. There are also some strange cor- 
rections made in the “Errata” (on what 
principle it is difficult to understand) : 
Tipuliformis, Myopiformis , Formici- 
formis , for Tipulxformis, & c., and 
Uropteryx for Ur ■Apteryx. 
But these omissions and inaccuracies 
may perhaps be corrected in a second 
edition ; at any rate they detract very little 
from the value of the work, which, con- 
sidering its merits, appears to have been 
coldly received. Entomology and Ety- 
mology have hitherto been too much 
divided ; whilst from their similarity of 
feature, the ignorant have frequently mis- 
taken the one for the other ; in reality 
France and Austria have not been more 
at variance. It ought therefore to be a 
satisfaction to all mutual friends of these 
two sciences, that, through the interven- 
tion of the English Universities (more 
successful than that other intervention of 
the English Government), an alliance be- 
tween them has at last been arranged. 
Believe me, 
Yours very truly, 
Rev. E. Horton. 
Wick, Worcester ; 
May 24. 
ENTOMOLOGY IN AMERICA. 
To the Editor of the * Intelligencer.' 
Easton, Pennsylvania, 
United States, 
May 15, 1859. 
Sir, — At the urgent solicitation of my- 
self and others, Professor Henry, Secre- 
tary of the Smithsonian Institution, has 
consented to authorise entomological col- 
lections, on behalf of the Institution, 
throughout the United States and at the 
military stations in the Indian territories. 
This will doubtless result in accumulating 
an immense amount of material, which 
will be distributed amongst students, who 
devote themselves to special orders, to 
methodize and describe. Then the In- 
stitution is preparing to issue a complete 
collecting Manual, giving minute and 
specific directions in the collection, pre- 
servation and method of observation of 
the various orders of iusects. For the 
purpose of distributing it widely over the 
country, it will appear, in the first place, 
in the Smithsonian Report for the present 
year, and a large number of the article 
itself will be distributed as a circular. 
The effect of this, however, will be 
seen in the future, and I have but little 
doubt that the future of “ Entomology in 
America” will be a bright one. 
I have just completed a synoptical 
paper on the Sphingidse of the North- 
