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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
great pleasure to make a collection for 
you during the present season, if you 
desire it, but you must not expect me to 
name many of them, for that is im- 
possible with my present acquirements. 
I approach with hesitation the chief ob- 
ject I had in writing to you, lest requests 
of a similar nature may be so numerous 
as to render its fulfilment a matter of 
difficulty or embarrassment to you. But 
if you can spare me a box of duplicate 
Lepidoptera it would be esteemed a great 
favour, and would, I am confident, be the 
means of lightening the laboriousness of 
classification and of advancing me more 
rapidly in ray studies. The possession of 
accurately classified and named speci- 
mens would facilitate the recognition of 
members of the same families and genera 
in a far greater degree than descriptions 
and delineations. I have already spent 
a considerable amount in the purchase 
of illustrated works, and have, in nearly 
every case, had reason to regret the ex- 
penditure after examining them. The 
illustrations of many of them are ad- 
mirable as works of art, but the generic 
descriptions, if they contain any at all, 
are so meagre, so indefinite, so unsatis- 
factory, that I have been more than once 
on the point of abandoning the study in 
despair. There has been too much of 
this appealing to the popular eye, instead 
of the mind: a study in which the artist’s 
pencil comes to be an indispensable aid 
does not deserve the name of a Science. 
I am, however, fully convinced it is far 
from being indispensable, and that the 
study cannot become general or popular 
in this country, at least until some votary 
of Entomology renders access to its 
mysteries less expensive, and less dis- 
couraging and difficult than it is now. 
If you arc yourself unable to supply 
me with specimens, possibly you can in- 
duce some of your many friends to em- 
brace this opportunity of benefiting a 
transatlantic “brother Jonathan.” All 
favours of this kind will meet not only 
my grateful acknowledgments, but be 
reciprocated by any courtesy I can extend 
to them, and their own boxes returned 
filled with any American insects in my 
power to obtain. As regards my own 
wants, I wish none but Lepidoptera be- 
longing to the section Heterocera ; you 
will greatly oblige me by stating this to 
any one to whom you may make over- 
tures, and that I desire them to be 
named, in every instance, in the manner 
they may find most convenient. I do 
not desire, moreover, to enter into any 
exchanges until the season has nearly 
ended, for I shall be too much occupied 
to attend to the matter previous to that 
time. If my application is successful, 
I have no doubt but that I can make 
arrangements for the reception and trans- 
mission of cases through my publishers, 
who have a house in London. 
I have directed the ‘Weekly Intelli- 
gencer’ to be sent me by every steamer, 
so that I can have the satisfaction of 
knowing what others are doing among 
the “Woild of Insects.” 
BRECKEN RIDGE CLEMENS. 
For Incipients in Entomology. 
A F A M I LI A It I NT RO D U CTI 0 N 
to the HISTORY of INSECTS. 
By Ehwako Newman, 
I, ate President ofllic Entomological Society. 
This work contains every Instruction 
for Catching, Killing, Classifying, Ar- 
ranging and Preserving Insects. It is 
written in the plainest possible phra- 
seology, and is illustrated with a pro- 
fusion of woodcuts. Price l‘2s. cloth. 
London: John Van Voorst, 1, Pater- 
noster Row. 
Printed and published by Edward Newman, 
Printer, of No. 9, Devonshire Street, liishops 
gale Without, London, in the county of Mid- 
dlesex.— Saturday, August 90, 18&7. 
