THE ENTOMOLOGISTS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 308.] SATUKDAY, SEPTEMBER 39, 1860. 
NOTES. 
Little has been caught this season ; 
our collections have not been much 
enriched, but have we not made a few 
observations ? 
Many of our readers have no doubt 
made some valuable observations, and 
we would venture to suggest that they 
should, before the impression on the 
mind fades, make notes of all these 
observations, so as to ensure that they 
shall not be lost. 
The last few numbers of this journal 
have clearly shown that, in spite of 
cold and wet, the Micro-Lepidopterists 
have not been idle, and we cannot 
but imagine that the students of other 
orders have likewise made some im- 
portant discoveries of facts in insect 
economy. 
The period of the year is now 
arriving when the writing-desk may 
be put to good entomological uses, 
and wc trust that there are some 
whom these remarks will incite to 
activity. 
Extracts from journals, or notes of 
anything like series of observations. 
[Price ItZ. 
will be most acceptable; as a sample 
specially of the kind of thing we like, 
we would refer to the “ Observations 
on Lepidopterous Larvae, by Q,” in 
the seventh volume of the ‘ Intelli- 
gencer,’ 
Other letters of the alphabet besides 
“Q” (from whom, we may remark, we 
should be glad to hear again) may be 
equally competent to write notes of 
their observations, and we should be 
glad to see that there was something 
infectious in this sort of note-making. 
The naturalist who spends hour after 
hour and week after week in studying 
the habits of insects, and yet never 
publishes for the use of others any 
results of. what he has observed, is, we 
regret to say, wasting much of his 
energies. They are not rendered so 
profitable as they might be, and he 
fails to extract the utmost use out of 
them. 
Had Reaumur and De Geer acted 
in the same way, it is hardly possible 
to calculate the loss which Science 
would have sustained, and though we 
may not all be capable of writing 
six fat quartos of notes, still we might 
do a trifle in that way occasionally. 
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