THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 99-] SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 1858. [Price 1 d 
LOCOMOTION. 
The next two months are emphatically 
the ■period of locomotion ; those who stop 
contentedly at their own fire - sides 
through the months of June and July 
are smitten with a travelling mania in 
Aug ust or September : sportsman or no 
sportsman, it is all the same; they must 
go somewhere. Now, amongst the mass 
of our readers, some, no doubt, will be 
visiting the coast, or the lakes, or some 
other new scenery ; but we much fear 
that sufficient use is not made of these 
excursions into tracts of country, per- 
haps never before visited by an energetic- 
entomologist. Bacon remarks, “ It is 
a strange thing that in sea voyages, 
where there is nothing to be seen but 
sky and sea, men should make diaries ; 
but in land-travel, wherein so much is 
to be observed, for the most part they 
omit it — as if chance were fitter to be 
registered than observation ; let diaries, 
therefore, be brought iuto use.” The 
valuable notes lately published in these 
pages (we allude to Mr. Boyd’s ‘ Cornish 
Tour’), will satisfy the most incredulous 
how very serviceable a diary of obser- 
vations, when moving over strange 
ground, may become; and we therefore 
hope each individual will do his best 
to keep a continuous record of all that 
strikes him as new, interesting, or 
curious when on his travels. But 
“ travellers,” remarks Whately, “ who 
do seek for knowledge on any point 
are to be warned against hasty induc- 
tion and rash generalisation, and con- 
sequent presumptuous conclusions.” 
Let diaries therefore be made, but 
yet let the traveller generalise with 
caution ! 
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