THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 82.] SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1857. [Price I </. 
PROGRESS, 
In tlie ‘ Intelligencer’ of last year we 
had 154 contributors ; this year we have 
225. That in itself is a cheering sign ; 
but many will be surprised to hear that, 
out of our 225 contributors, there are 90 
whose names have not figured in either 
of the lists of entomologists in the 
‘Annual:’ we may presume, then, of 
these 90, that it is their first year. But 
if we have 90 who have turned their 
attention to Entomology this year, swel- 
ling our list of contributors, how many 
new devotees must the Science have 
who have not favoured us with contri- 
butions? Many, we all know, are 
simply readers of papers, and do not 
contribute to them. 
If this, too, is the rate of progress iu 
the second year of our existence, what 
results may we not expect by the time 
we have attained our second lustrum? 
The fact of the fifth thousand of the 
cheap edition of Kirby and Spence’s 
‘Introduction to Entomology’ having 
been advertised two months ago, may 
well help us to account for the vast 
spread of Entomology amongst the 
rising generation; it is evident that 
before long we shall be hearing of the 
“ retreat of the Tenth Thousand.” 
But we should be glad to see more 
leaders among the mob ; the complaint 
of all the journals latterly has been that 
the last general election brought for- 
ward no new men of mark, that all the 
celebrities of the present Parliament ex- 
isted already in the previous one ; now, 
though we are not so sanguine as to 
expect that an entomologist, iu his first 
year, should at once take the lead, and 
show himself as a shining light, still, 
when a series of years pass away and no 
fresh celebrities are developed, we feel 
it a great discouragement. The pre- 
sent leaders cannot last for ever ; when 
they pass away, who is to take their 
places ? 
The ‘Times’ was facetious the other 
day on the necessary amount of bodily 
toughness necessary to a great man : 
however noble his intellect, if the body 
were not of a material sufficiently hardy, 
it must succumb to the wear and tear 
thrown upon it by the mind ; hence it 
was observed that all our great states- 
men had exceedingly tough constitu- 
tions, not that statesmanship toughened 
them, but that no oue destitute of a 
first-rate constitution ever attained to a 
first place in the political arena, or, 
if he did, he dropped — worn out as 
soon as he arrived there. Do ento- 
mologists also require an unusually 
tough material ? 
“ Orundum cst, lit sit mens sanu, in corpore 
sano.” 
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