THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 13.] SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1856. [Price Id. 
THE HOLIDAYS. 
“The last Sunday of the long half” has 
become a thing of the past ; and during 
the last two weeks schools have been 
dispersing in all directions. 
The young entomologists, who for 
three months have been tied to one loca- 
lity, with perhaps not too much time to 
work even at that, now find themselves 
in very different places with plenty of 
spare time, (perhaps a little too much). 
Those who have been at school on sand 
or clay are perhaps ‘at home’ on the 
chalk: happy indeed are they! located 
where Flora spreads her beauties with 
the most lavish hand, and where scores of 
insects occur not found on other soils. 
Some who have been at school on the 
chalk are now deep in the pleasures of 
the green sand, or less pleasantly 
situated on the miry clay. Some have 
emigrated frotn south to north, others 
have taken their railway tickets in a 
contrary direction. 
One manifest result has taken place: 
the insects in one set of localities are en- 
joying a temporary respite, while the in- 
sects in other places have discovered, to 
their dismay, that their “ beauties are no 
longer born to blush unseen,” but that 
without their leave being asked they are 
caught, have prussic acid administered 
to them, and are then pinned and set out. 
And then, unfortunately, the hands that 
operate upon them not being very well 
skilled as yet, the pinning is not as pre- 
cise as it should be, and the setting out 
leaves something to be desired, so that 
the unfortuuate insects haven’t even the 
consolation of going down to posterity as 
“ fine specimens : ” Oh del ! autre dis- 
grace. 
But many during the holidays will 
not be permanently in one place: there 
will be the annual migration with their 
sisters and younger brothers to some 
watering-place, where we hope they will 
bore all their young acquaintance by 
asking them if they’ve seen the ‘ Intel- 
ligencer’ this week. Each of our indivi- 
dual readers may thus make himself ex- 
ceedingly useful as a species of adver- 
tisement. 
Those who go to the sea-side will, we 
hope, hasten to become acquainted with 
the botany of the coast: the number of 
maritime species of plants is enormous ; 
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but so few entomologists reside on the 
coast that little has yet been done in ex- 
ploring and investigating the insects 
attached to the different sea-side plants. 
Here is a wide field of action, and one 
that will afford plenty to do during the 
continuance of the holidays. 
Oh ! if you don’t like the word “ holi- 
days,” we will say “ vacation.” 
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