THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
A spiig of Polygonum aviculare, with galls formed by the laiwa of Asychna 
aratcUii. (See p. 82)» 
ORDER. 
At tins season of the year every one 
is putting his sunnner captures away 
and arranging his collection. No one 
likes to have a mass of disordered 
and unnamed captures; every speci- 
men has its appointed place, and it 
must he put away, because if once a 
specimen gets into the wrong hole it 
is very apt to cause much confusion. 
When a series of an insect is pre- 
served by a collector it will frequently 
happen that e:ich individual specimen 
has come from a different locality; 
here is Lasiocampa Quercus from Scot- 
land, there the same insect from Lan- 
cashire ; there one from the Feus, 
there one from the Isle of Wight, 
and there one from Cornwall ; and 
the entomologist who has amassed these 
treasures together recounts to you, when 
you see his collection, whence came 
each specimen, and points out the 
slight diflFerences, the “ variations of 
species,” caused by latitude and cli- 
mate ; but how if the collector dies? 
The specimens remain, but the in- 
formation which made them so instruc- 
tive dies with the collector. Is this 
wise ? Is this right ? Dare we spend 
years collecting information which we 
do not record, and which is therefore 
lost — totally lost — at our decease? 
Why should not each specimen be 
labelled when and where taken ; why 
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