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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
they had conferred more good upon 
science than they could even have done 
by a series of successive noonday revels 
in the metropolitan jungles), how much 
faster should we progress in all the great 
questions of our craft ! 
We cannot too strongly urge, thus 
early in our campaign, the desirability 
of concentrating our attention (during at 
least a portion of the season) to some 
specially selected spot, because it may, 
perhaps, suggest to those of our Coleop- 
terists, who are likely to have leisure for 
wandering, to arm themselves at once 
with a ‘ Bradshaw’s Railway Guide,’ and 
to think over the map of England with a 
view to the future, so as to decide upon 
a field of action worthy of their energies 
and time. And in this decision let not 
the probability of mere productiveness 
be made the one ruling element. Those 
who adopt Entomology as a means of 
livelihood must necessarily regulate their 
movements according as they are likely 
to be remunerated, but those who go for- 
ward solely for the advancement of 
science will frequently reap, in districts 
where there is but little “ game,” an even 
greater amount of knowledge and enjoy- 
ment than elsewhere ; for it is a remark- 
able fact (as though the result of the 
universal “ law of compensation ”), that 
it is in those regions, which are the least 
productive entomologically, that Nature 
is the wildest, and, in one sense, there- 
fore, attains her maximum. 
In some future numbers we propose to 
offer a few remarks on the general fea- 
tures of certain districts, as exemplified 
in the Coleoptera , but the space will not 
permit us to commence them now. We 
will, therefore, merely record from our per- 
sonal experience, the intense delight of 
exploring (for even a few weeks) compa- 
ratively untrodden ground. Even though 
the species be but few which come within 
our grasp, the chance of novelties we 
feel is great. 
The mere enjoyment of travelling to a 
distance from the busy hum of our 
modern Babylon has been dwelt upon 
ad nauseam from time immemorial ; yet 
it is by no means an insignificant item 
in inducing us to move. “ Those,” says 
an old writer, “ who stay at home like 
snails, cochlearum instar, amongst brick 
and mortar (though like a Psyche or So- 
lenohia would have been a more entomo- 
logical simile), can never know much of 
Nature practically.” Travelling, accord- 
ing to this sanguine author, is the source 
of all wisdom ; and he quotes Moses and 
the Prophets in support of his theory. 
“We ought all indeed” (sagely continues 
he) “ to travel, — vita nostra peregrinatio 
cst.” 
How to Catch an Emperor. 
See ‘ Manual,' p. 35, and 1 Zoologist' for April. 
High on his leafy throne, 
Seated in purple state, 
The Emperor rules alone, 
Superior to Fate. 
Longing collector, go — 
Thy net is all too short: 
Kings are not taken so : 
Pul up with humbler sport. 
Solomon in his glory, 
Admired of Sheba’s Queen, 
As runs the sacred story, 
In virtue sat serene ; 
But sinful sweets subdued him, 
And filthy lust o’ercame. 
Try muddy pools and sugar, 
And thou shalt find the same. 
E. II. 
Herb Dohrn, the President of the 
Entomological Society of Stettin, and 
Dr. Hagen, the celebrated Neuropterist, 
are expected in London next week. 
Printed and published by Edward Nkwman, 
Printer, of No. 0, Devonshire Street, Ilishops- 
ntc Without, London, in the county of Mid- 
lesex.— Saturday, April 25, 1H57. 
