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pursuit is not pleasure, and should be 
paid for liberally, as Englislunen gene- 
rally expect to be paid, — it is not just to 
bring British insects, nor to degrade 
British labour, down to the Continental 
level. I may be wholly one-sided in my 
ideas, or perhaps I don’t look at things 
in their proper light, — or I may be called 
self-interested, because I sell a few in- 
sects now and then, — but, strange as it 
may seem, I can see no more degrada- 
tion in selling insects than in selling my 
machinery, or in any one else selling 
his wares, or even the ‘ Intelligencer.’ 
Our best j5(CMspis-hunter here has in- 
jured his health by searching too keenly 
among the alder swamps for the pupa- 
cases, I do think they are the true and 
best friends of the Science who support 
with their purse, — not with mere sym- 
pathy, 
For sympathy without relief, 
hike mustard is — without the beef, — 
men of the Weaveriau school, though I 
am aware that all cannot afford to do 
so. There are several of such men now ; 
I may instance our Bouchard and our 
Harding, to say nothing of the im- 
portant services of the one who first, and 
so unceasingly, followed it up, as a source 
of profit, — the late Richard Weaver. If 
such men were encouraged we should see 
more Irish and more Scotch forms of 
Nature, and thus be enabled to see how 
they differ from our English specimens. 
We have few men of metal that go to 
the more remote regions of our isles, and 
such as we have should be encouraged ; 
they are of the right sort, and when they 
do go out we should encourage them 
with something more substantial than a 
Continental “ pill,” by saying (for in- 
stance), “ In Germany Nubeculosa is 
worth a shilling, and I will give no more 
for a Scotch one.” Do this, and our 
hard-working English collectors will 
cease to go, and thus leave a great blank 
in future discovery; but if the prize is 
worth hunting for, it will bring more 
into the trade, and the chances are that 
more specimens will be taken, and as a 
consequence they will be cheaper, and 
thus be made more accessible to a 
greater number of entomologists. One 
reason, in my opinion, why insects re- 
main at a price which some consider 
dear, is that so few have the will, if they 
have the purse, to induce dealers to make 
greater efforts to collect large number, — 
the demand for the rarer species being 
so very select. For my part I will 
not collect insects to give to those 
who have the means to buy, but who 
would rather beg, — there is more “ de- 
gradation ” in this than in selling. I 
will give, and always felt reluctant to 
sell, to any working man, — I mean a 
man who will work at collecting, even if 
he be badly located, and of bnmbler 
means than myself. No collecting for 
sale, to sell them for nothing. I will 
leave fame to those of fortune, and my 
fame shall be in my silent pleasure of 
musing and collecting alone, — without 
the stimulus of money or the aspiration 
of wishing to be considered liberal. 
J. B. Hodgkinson. 
Haggerstone Entomological So- 
ciety. — Six months since myself and 
two or three friends started an Ento- 
mological Society under the above title. 
We have thirty-two members, each mem- 
ber paying one penny per week, twopence 
for a copy of the rules, and one shilling 
entrance fee. The Society holds its 
meetings every Thursday evening, from 
nine till half-past ten o’clock, at the 
“ Carpenters’ Arras,” Martha Street, Hag- 
gerstone: the average attendance of 
members is about twenty. In the first 
quarter (Mr. Sayers in the chair) we ex- 
pended 19i. in books. During the second 
quarter (myself in the chair) we purchased 
an uncoloured edition (the first) of Wood’s 
‘ Index Entomologicus’ for 30s., and have 
at this moment a balance of £\ 3s. Id. 
in hand. — C. Healy, 4, Hath Place, 
Haggerstone, N.E . ; Dec. 1 0. 
