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mitted to the rights and privileges of the 
House of Tineae. Mr. Cooke, N.C., then 
produced two cases black with soot, which 
he had found in a warehouse- window, 
and from which he had bred two speci- 
mens of the insect, and he observed he 
had also seen Merdella in other ware- 
houses : he also called attention to the 
fact that Mr. Gregson had declared Mer- 
della identical with Pallescenlella, which 
years ago had been admitted to a seat in 
their house. He argued that Merdella 
was domiciled at Liverpool, and that un- 
less “Laws and learning, arts and com- 
merce” were to die — (loud cries of 
“ Manners, Manners”) — as long as Liver- 
pool remained a wealthy port — as long 
as wool was warehoused there — so long 
would Merdella be found in the ware- 
houses there. (At the end of this elo- 
quent address, the learned counsel sat 
down and was loudly cheered.) 
Mr. Southgrove then rose to make a 
few observations. It appeared to him 
that too much stress was laid upon indi- 
vidual instances. Was their legislation 
to be of a piecemeal character, and were 
they not rather to lay down a general 
rule applicable to all future cases of a 
similar nature? He regretted he did not 
observe amongst his juniors a greater 
habit of generalizing ; for his own part 
he never made a single observation with- 
out deducing from it a general law, and 
though no doubt it might be contended 
that this was a hasty proceeding, and the 
laws so deduced ought to be carefully 
verified — (hear, hear) — still he felt it 
was his mission to announce these law’s, 
leaving it to others who were fonder of 
details to prove their correctness. (Loud 
cries of “ Question, question.”) 
Mr. Southgrove said he had not inten- 
tionally wandered from the subject; and 
with reference to the claims of Merdella 
he must say that he thought unnecessary 
fuss had been made about it (he meant 
no allusion to the noble chairman, for he 
was himself no admirer of puns and a 
bad hand at a joke), he would remind 
the committee that Coleo — he meant Por- 
reclaria Laricella — had this year proved 
very injurious to some young larch trees. 
Now Laricella was not known to feed on 
any tree but the larch, and the larch 
( Pinus larix) was not a native of our 
island : it had been imported from the 
North of Europe, and no doubt Porrec- 
taria Laricella and other larch feeders 
had been imported with it: yet Laricella, 
since its first discovery here, had always 
been admitted to a seat in another place 
(the House of Coleophor*). 
(The learned counsel, whose address 
appeared to have had a soporific effect 
on several of the noble moths present 
then sat down amidst much cheering.) 
Mr. Septimus Oldboy, Member of the 
Imperial Low Comedy Association of 
Verona, then rose to say a few words ; 
but at this juncture some wag having 
turned on a great blaze of gas the assem- 
bled moths all congregated round the 
chandelier, and the meeting w’as ad- 
journed sine die ; the counsel and their 
attendant clerks being all convulsed 
with laughter. 
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