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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
and the offer to exchange rare ones for 
commoner. Now, does it not suggest it- 
self to the entomologist that scarcely any 
notice will be taken of the first kind of 
offer ; and, as to the second kind, do you 
not think that it would be better for the 
entomologist to bestir himself and catch 
the commoner sorts himself? All ento- 
mologists then would be upon the same, 
or nearly the same, footing ; but, as 
it is at present, those who have the 
most money and boxes to spare will 
form a collection in half the lime that 
it takes the conscientious and hard- 
working tyros. 
The system of exchange as carried on 
in the ‘Intelligencer’ is quite frightful. 
Here are universally common insects 
offered in exchange for others as com- 
mon, so that those persons, as I have 
said before, who have more money than 
insects, carry off the prize for a larger 
collection than I. or J., who have 
depended solely upon our own exer- 
tions. 
I had hoped that when you charged 
for notices of exchange this evil would 
have been modified ; but no, — week after 
week there are nearly the same set of 
names offering the same set of insects 
for the same return. Sir, double, treble, 
— nay, quadruple, — the charge for inser- 
tions of notices of exchange,— do any- 
thing to reduce this unscientific system 
of exchange, which can do nothing to 
advance our Science. How can a person 
expect to learn anything of insects by 
merely receiving them per post ? If I 
see a good insect in my friend’s cabinet, 
and, thinking to gain some information 
as to the locality whence it was taken, 
I ask him the oft-repeated question, 
“Where did you take that?” I learn 
little by his replying, “ From a box sent 
to me by a correspondent.” 
I am the “ Merest Tyro,” and look 
upon these sort of things perhaps with 
a tyro’s eye ; but what say enlotnolo- 
gisls on this wholesale system of ex- 
changes? I send you my name in full, 
but remain 
Your obedient servant, 
M. T. 
OBITUARY. 
We regret to announce the death of 
Major Edmund Sheppard, F.L.S., which 
event took place on the 6th instant, at 
his residence Rutland House, Kingston- 
on-'rhames. 
In the Press, 
THE BRITISH TORTRICES. 
BY S. J. WILKINSON. • 
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uniform with the series of the ‘ Insecta 
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of all the British species of Tortricina, 
with observations on their habits and 
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