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or Bombyciua, but not further, and in this 
it would not, I think, be adviseable to 
enter too deeply into all the minutiae, — 
it would only have the effect of making 
the examination got up, as I am sorry to 
say too many examinations are got up, 
viz. “crammed.” The questions should 
be general, and on the more prominent 
characters of the insects : this would, 
however, apply only to Lepidopterists, — 
Kirby and Spence would apply to all. 
Then I think those to be examined 
should be subject to any question on the 
methods of capturing, times and places 
of capture, modes of killing, preserving, 
&c., such as may be found in the ‘ An- 
nual’ for 1855 and the ‘Entomologist’s 
Companion.’ Then a consideration is, 
how often the examinations are to lake 
place, and the time of the year must also 
be considered : it would not do to have 
it in the summer, when every one is in 
the field. 
I think these examinations will be a 
capital plan, and will tend to make En- 
tomology studied and taken up more as 
a Science, as it truly deserves to be, than 
as a simple amusement with which to 
pass away a few idle hours. 
I remain. Sir, 
Yours very truly, 
J UVENIS. 
FR0P0SAL FOR A CIRCULATING 
ENTOMOLOGIST. 
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ‘INTELLI- 
GENCER.’ 
Sir, — To one who has already so many 
irons in the fire, — who stirs and nourishes 
the entomological flame by ‘ Intelli- 
gencer,’ ‘Manual’ and ‘Annual,’ — and is 
now engaged in purifying it by a new 
Examination scheme, it seems almost 
cruel to make any further suggestion for 
the benefit of the human race. I have 
therefore some scruples in calling your 
attention to the condition of rather a large 
class of entomologists, scattered over the 
provinces at a hopeless distance from the 
metropolitan sun, and many in neigh- 
bourhoods where there is not a planet of 
any magnitude to afford them even re- 
flected light. These isolated and be- 
nighted beings have all one great want, — 
a want which ‘Annual,’ ‘Manual’ and 
‘Intelligencer’ scarcely touch : it is the 
want of some living luminary to tell them 
what this is and what that is ; to enable 
them to separate a species here, to include 
a variety there, and to till up gaps in 
their collections thus revised, from that 
mysterious box or sacred corner where the 
doubtful and unknown 
“ Repose in hope or moulder in despair." 
Let me, then, respectfully suggest to 
the London Society the expediency of 
shooting out some such luminary from 
their own luminous body into space, with 
a new ‘ Bradshaw ’ in his pocket and 
other instructions for his guidance in his 
intricate and erratic orbit. Perhaps a 
Travelling Fellowship might be endowed 
for him, after the manner of some at Ox- . 
ford, either by private munificence or 
public subscription ; and, in the event of 
your Examination scheme being carried 
out, the same individual (or any multiple 
of the same, if required) might conduct 
the Provincial Examinations. I should 
think that there might be collected a 
sufficient number of guineas from district 
Societies and those private gentlemen 
who carry purses as well as nets, and 
shillings from “our friend the weaver” 
and others of the working class, to pay for 
such a man’s travelling expenses, helped 
out by the private hospitality with which 
he would be sure to meet wherever his 
beneficial beams were felt. Then, as 
some reward to himself, besides that of 
doing good, he might be the honoured 
means of bringing to light many a new 
species, or, at any rate, of establishing 
many a new locality for rare species 
