THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 86.] SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1858. [Price Id. 
THE FLORA OF RUGBY. 
In the first volume of the ‘Intelli- 
gencer’ (p. 175), when we were dis- 
cussing' “ Why Entomologists are scarce 
at Rugby,” we suggested that perhaps 
there was a monotonous vegetation, and 
hence a lack of food for any variety 
of insects, and, in order to solve this 
question, we enquired, “ Is the Flora 
of Rugby really so poor? We should 
like to see a list of the plants found 
wild within a distance of three miles 
from the School. Can any one send 
us such a list? We will give a ‘World 
of Insects ’ for the best list and a 
‘June’ for the second best.” To this 
appeal we received no response. 
Now the new head-master of Rugby 
has come to our rescue, and we hope 
the following announcement will incite 
some of our readers to exertion, and 
thus, in due time, we may expect to 
hear of the list of Rugby plants. 
“ Rugby, April 2, 1858. 
“Two prizes of £5 and £3 will be 
given next autumn for the best col- 
lections of dried wild flowers and plants 
growing within four miles of the School. 
The plants must be neatly fastened into 
a book, and the proper botanical de- 
scription, the peculiar characteristics 
and the exact place and time of finding 
must be written opposite each plant. 
Quotations may also be inserted from 
English or ancient authors in which 
the plant is mentioned or described. 
No prize will be given to a candidate 
who is unable to say that he gathered 
every plant in his book himself. The 
books to be sent iu on the 19th of 
October at first lesson. The prize is 
open to the whole School. 
“ F. Temple.” 
The higher prize here offered will 
no doubt act as a stimulus to com- 
petitors, even though the object sought 
is something more extensive than a 
list of plants, but the point of view in 
which we look at it as of the greatest 
importance is the halo of respect thrown 
over the young botanist by the induce- 
ment specially held out to him to con- 
tinue in his flower-seeking career by no 
less a person than the Head Master. 
Since entomologists are now in- 
creasing at Rugby, and since no one 
ignorant of Botany can be a first-rate 
entomologist, we trust that some of our 
entomological readers will themselves 
go in for these Botanical Prizes, and 
those who think of doing so must re- 
solve immediately , as the spring flowers 
must be collected at once, or they will 
not appear in the collections handed 
in on the 19th of October. 
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