THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 143,] SATURDAY, JUNE 25, 1859. [Price lrf 
LOCALITIES. 
We are sometimes rather pestered with 
letters from incipients enquiring whether 
such and such localities are good, and 
what they ought to get there. Our reply 
generally, in such cases, is “ Go and 
see. 
In the ‘ Entomologist’s Companion,’ 
p. 99, we remarked of Hammersmith 
Marshes that that locality “ has pro- 
duced several good insects, probably 
more owing to the continuous exertions 
of Mr. Stevens than to any intrinsic 
goodness of the place.” And we further 
added, “We continually find that it is 
the person and not the place that makes 
a good locality. Thus the reputation 
Ripley has enjoyed for more than a 
quarter of a century is owing to the 
late Mr. Stephens having collected 
assiduously there for six weeks.” 
No doubt some soils are better than 
others ; thus sand is to be preferred to 
clay, and chalk to sand, but the best 
localities are where the chalk and sand 
meet, as you then get two sets of 
plants, and consequently a double va- 
riety of insects. In the Northern 
Counties limestone supplies the place 
of chalk, and is nearly, if not quite, as 
productive. 
A correspondent lately asked, “ What 
part of Epping Forest is best to visit? 
I find ‘Epping’ mentioned so often in 
the ‘Manual’ as the locality of various 
insects that I wish to make a trip 
there one of the first fine days.” Now, 
if Mr. Doubleday had not lived at 
Epping we should never have heard of 
Epping as a locality for insects, and if 
Mr. Doubleday had resided at West 
Wickham all the world would have 
concluded that West Wickham was a 
first-rate locality for insects ; nay, we 
are not sure that if Mr. Doubleday 
had resided at Hampstead, people who 
reside at Kentish Town would not all 
have been flocking to Hampstead “ as 
the locality for various insects.” 
Another correspondent writes, “ In 
the midsummer holidays I shall most 
probably be at Dawlish, where I have 
friends, and hope to make frequent 
excursions to Teigumouth, and should 
like to know what you include in that 
locality. Does it include Haldon? as, 
that hill lying between the towns I 
have mentioned, it would save me a 
long walk if I had only to go to the 
top of Haldon and not down into 
Teignmouth.” Now Teignmouth is 
mentioned as a locality simply because 
Dr. Jordan resided there in his youth, 
and insects which he took in the 
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