THE 
WEEKLY ENTOMOLOGIST 
ENTOIIA QTJIBQUIB AGUNT NOSTRI EST FARRAGO LIBELLI.” 
No. 30.] 
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 18G3. [Price 2d. 
A PLACE FOE EVERYONE, 
/ANCE upon a. time, there was 
^ a youthful watchmaker, who 
had long 1 been looking forward to 
the day when he was to put together, 
for the first time, the numberless 
.wheels, springs, and chains which 
form a watch. Of course, many 
hands had been at work already on 
the wonderful piece of mechanism. 
One artificer had been preparing the 
main spring, another the regulator, 
and others the wheels. Now this 
youth was of a sanguine, hasty 
temper, and we shall see how, in 
his anxiety to gratify his ambition, 
he led himself into a failure. It so 
happened that all the workmen 
einployed on preparing the several 
parts of the watch, had not com- 
pleted them at the time when they 
should have been in his hands ; 
but he, without even finishing that 
portion of the preliminary work 
which was committed to his care, 
hastily gathered together the hete- 
rogeneous mass of unfinished wheels 
and untested springs, and attempted 
to form them into a watch. Soon 
were they placed within the case, 
and under his skilful care, wheel 
was set to act on wheel, and 
spring on spring, all in due order. 
This result having been achieved, 
he congratulated himself on his 
success, and proceded to test the 
efficiency of the instrument in calcu- 
lating the time. But with what 
result ? To his surprise the fingers 
remained motionless, and every 
effort that he used only served to 
demonstrate the fact that his watch 
would not go. 
Now is it not quite possible that 
the above anecdote may convey a 
lesson to entomologists ? Are not 
too many of us trying to put 
together the parts of the watch, 
and form an harmonious whole, 
while we should be much better 
employed in working steadily at 
just one wheel? But we will ex- 
plain. 
It is a very agreeable thing in 
scientific pursuits to generalize, and 
the public generally accord by far 
the largest share of their applause 
to the man who does so. It is 
naturally the case that he who 
harmonises the united labours of 
