THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
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intelligent entoinologist for its Secretary. 
Each member, before being admitted to 
the Society, to subscribe to a declaration 
to the effect that he will, to the best of 
his ability, collect all the species which 
occur in his neighbourhood (except the 
very commonest, which may uot be re- 
quired), and forward them, properly set, 
in a large box or boxes, as a parcel by 
rail, at the end of each season, to the 
Secretary. Each member to send not 
less than — species (the number to be 
decided by a majority of the members). 
The Secretary, on receiving the insects 
from the different members, to proceed 
to share them equally, care being taken 
that the member who has sent up any 
local species shall have a specimen or 
specimens of the same placed in his box. 
A register of the species sent up by each 
member to be sent with the insects, and 
preserved for general reference. On all 
the species being shared in this way, 
there would remain a considerable num- 
ber of various kinds unappropriated ; 
most of these might be exchanged by the 
Secretary for the species wanted by the 
members, whose marked lists he would 
have, and thus a large number of blanks 
might be lilled up in a wholesale manner. 
At the close of the appropriating and ex- 
changing operations, each member would 
have his boxes sent him, which, instead 
of merely containing the local species he 
has himself collected, would have speci- 
mens of these, and in addition a variety 
of others, the result of tffe labours of the 
other members in various parts of the 
country. 
A subscription would be necessary to 
pay the Secretary, but it need not be 
heavy, and would probably be but little 
more than an energetic collector would 
expend in correspondence and exchanges. 
If a Committee could be appointed to 
work with the Secretary, the expense 
would be lessened. In a few years, in 
addition to the members having rapidly 
increased their collections, I doubt not 
the Society could collect a large number 
of spare insects, which might be formed 
into cabinets and offered for sale, and 
the proceeds applied to the working ex- 
penses, in lieu of the subscriptions. 
There will of course be inequality in 
the value and number of the species sent 
up by the different members, — one mem- 
ber may reside in a good locality, have 
plenty of time, and work hard, while 
another may not be so well placed, or 
work so hard ; but as each member, before 
he can participate in the sharing, must 
send up not less than a certain number 
of different species, this evil is minimized, 
and I should hope there would be suffi- 
cient mutual confidence among collectors 
to effect the rest. 
Hoping my suggestion may be further 
improved upon, and in some form ulti- 
mately carried out, 
I remain. 
Very truly yours, 
Joseph Meeuin. 
Gloucester^ 
January I, 1859. 
Wanted, Charles Turner . — This is a 
person who, in the early part of last year, 
eased several people of a subscription, in 
no case under a guinea, to enable him to 
go to Ranuoch for the purpose of col- 
lecting insects, which were to have been 
divided in November last. As the time 
for such distribution is far past due, and 
as I was one of the diseased ones, I have 
but two objects in view in writing this 
notice: — first, I would caution every 
entomologist against such people; and, 
secondly, to give him notice that, unless 
he does, within fourteen days from the 
appearance of this paper, refund to me 
my subscription, I shall pursue him for 
obtaining money under false pretences. 
I may also tell him that whoever knows 
me can inform him that I mean what I 
have written. I am wishful to assist any 
