THE ENTOMOLOGISTS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 156.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1859. [Price Id. 
LIST OF ENTOMOLOGISTS. 
The usual period of the year has 
now arrived when the preparation of 
the new volume of the ‘ Entomologist’s 
Annual’ engages our attention. 
Of that publication the List of 
British Entomologists now forms no 
inconsiderable portion; but the diffi- 
culty of keeping that correct is very 
considerable. When we first undertook 
this list we took the trouble of sending 
a slip, with the name as proposed to 
be entered, to each individual, thereby 
ensuring that each should correct his 
own address; but we fear that if we 
did so annually to all those already 
enumerated in our List we should get 
voted “a regular bore,” and our cir- 
culars would cease to come back to 
us. 
We hear some reader suggest that 
we should so word our circular that 
it should only require to be returned 
if incorrect; that we should say, “Un- 
less we hear from you to the contrary, 
we shall assume that the address as 
printed is still perfectly correct.” But 
should we then get rid of all the 
defunct entomologists? Entomologists 
die in two ways; in the first place, 
they often cease to be entomologists 
from turning their attention exclusively 
to other matters ; though living in the 
flesh — active at the Senate, the Bar, 
the Pulpit or the Counting House — 
they are entomologically dead; in the 
second place, some continue votaries of 
the Science till their life’s end, but 
how are we to learn when that period 
arrives ? 
Occasionally we observe, to our re- 
gret, the death of some old corres- 
pondent recorded in the columns of 
the ‘ Times,’ and at other times we 
hear from some mutual friend of the 
loss which our Science has sustained : 
these sad events are then chronicled 
in our columns under the head of 
“ Obituary.” But of the 967 ento- 
mologists whose names are recorded 
in our last year’s List, some may 
have left this sublunary scene without 
any notice of the event reaching us, 
and these names we might continue to 
chronicle for years. 
Our readers are therefore particularly 
requested — 
1. To inform us if they wish their 
names added to the forthcoming list 
of Entomologists. 
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