THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 153.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1859. 
PATIENCE. 
Patience is a very necessary virtue. 
But it is a virtue not common among 
the young ; youth is proverbially im- 
patient. 
We frequently disappoint our younger 
contributors by not inserting their no- 
tices of captures as promptly as they 
expect. Once we received, on Friday 
morning, a notice, with the request 
that it might appear in that week’s 
‘ Intelligencer; ’ now, however important 
this notice might have been, it was 
clearly impossible for us to comply 
with the writer’s request, as that week’s 
journal was already printed, and at 
that time being forwarded by post 
through the length and breadth of the 
country. 
Perhaps some would wish us to state 
the latest hour at which we will re- 
ceive contributions to be forthwith 
available; but we do not think it 
prudent to supply that information ; 
we should thereby simply ensure our 
receiving a batch of news just at the 
last moment. 
The sooner we receive communica- 
tions the more available they are ; but 
we may safely announce that notices 
received on Mondays will always he in 
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time, and will appear in that week’s 
paper, unless they are held back by 
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the pressure of more important matter. 
For instance, if we have matter set up 
in type to fill completely our eight 
pages, and we receive an announce- 
ment of the capture of Deilepliila 
Euphorbias ou the coast of Hampshire, 
or of Pieris Daplidice on the banks of 
the Avon, we should squeeze in these 
more important notices, to the exclu- 
sion of some other matter previously 
received. 
Communications that reach us on 
Tuesday are almost always in time; 
but then, if they are not of a pressing 
nature, and we are already full, though 
we have time, we yet want space. 
On Wednesday it is only notices of 
the utmost importance that can ever 
receive attention ; and most frequently 
even those must then wait for the 
ensuing week. On that day we leave 
home at an early hour, and have an 
interview with our worthy printer at 
his office, and finally correct the press 
for that week’s issue. We then gene- 
rally find other occupation to employ 
us in London, and return home in the 
afternoon. On our arrival “at home” 
the first thing that greets us is a pile 
of letters which arrived after our de- 
parture in the morning. Now what 
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