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stairs to see if there was any one there 
that would introduce me, I being a 
stranger there. Mr. F. told a person 
high in the Society that he had a friend 
who wished to see the rooms: “Oh! 
have you,” says the party ; hut never 
said bring him up, which Mr. F. could 
not do without permission : so I waited 
at the entrance about an hour without 
being able to meet any one that I knew 
to take me up : so I was disappointed 
again. 
Having been out collecting, and 
having taken one or two iusects which I 
knew were scarce, hut did not know the 
Latin names, and having bred a tiger 
moth, a phenomenon, I thought I would 
try again. I proceeded to the second 
floor as directed, and I heard some one 
speaking, so I thought I would wait until 
they were done and then go in : pre- 
sently out comes a flgure, that evidently 
had no love for insects, to know what I 
wanted. I told her that I was waiting 
to go into the room : she asked me if I 
had a card. I said “ no, I had come 
there through seeing an invitation in the 
‘ Intelligencer.’” She said the meeting 
was private, and that I could not go in 
without an order, and that the meeting 
was almost over: this was at half-past 
eight o’clock, so that it must he a short 
meeting to begin at eight and he done at 
half-past. I think it would he better if 
you had a person “in livery and brass” 
to give information when required. 
July 8, 1856. Infeltx. 
We cannot help moralising upon the 
above two very different letters. Felix, 
we believe, was as much a stranger as 
Infelix ; but the happy man attended 
the meeting and enjoyed it. It occurs 
to us that Felix must have opened the 
door and walked in nothing daunted, 
but that Infelix stopped outside the 
door nervously listening, and so was sus- 
pected of being there for no good pur- 
pose. We can only recommend Infelix 
to try again, and if still afraid to come 
in to send in the following letter: — 
Dear Sir, — I am outside the door: 
could you or some friend of yours intro- 
duce me as a visitor to the Meeting. 
Yours truly, 
A. B. 
H. T. Stainton, Esq. 
In reply to Felix’s enquiry we beg to 
state that the annual subscription to the 
Entomological Society is one guinea. 
Members pay in addition an admission 
fee of two guineas. Subscribers pay no 
admission fee, but are not eligible to 
office in ‘the Society. If Felix aspires 
to the President’s chair at some future 
day, we recommend him to become a 
Member. 
Infelix recommends we should have 
a porter in livery : just at present we do 
not see exactly who could be selected for 
that office: the Curator has just assumed 
the Secretaryship, otherwise we might 
perhaps have thought of combining the 
Curator and Porter in one person. But 
the idea of Mr. Janson in the robe of a 
Bank beadle 
Should the ‘Intelligencer’ “go 
down” for the winter? 
I have waited anxiously to see what 
other people thought on the subject 
before I gave my vote, as our “Yankee” 
brothers over the water say. 1 go the 
whole thing, that no such thing take 
place. Why! a Sunday breakfast with- 
out the ‘Intelligencer’ to it? pah! ridi- 
culous! cannot think of such a horrible 
consummation. Perhaps you may ask 
why it should not become a pupa. 
There are many reasons: — the first is 
that it has not yet become known to a 
tithe of the English collectors, and 
scarcely a tithe of those who have heard 
of it have seen it, and very few of those 
