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THE SUBSTITUTE. 
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I legist is at cliurch with his family, 
or eujoyiiig with them the quiet 
beauties of Nature or the de- 
llights of home, a horde of un- 
ihempt and merciless savages 
regularly sally forth from Lon- 
don, Manchester and other large 
ttowns, and ravage every wood in 
ttheir neighbourhood ; beating, 
^sweeping, smoking, and sugaring, 
;as if their sole object was to rid 
tthe world of the delicate creatures 
:they profess to admire. Now, 
‘surely, Mr. Editor, such men are 
la reproach to Science. I always 
t thought that the study of Natural 
IHistory was a humanizing, Cbris- 
ttianizing study, directly lending 
tto make men peaceful and pious. 
IWho does not see this in White 
cofSelborne? How holy, and ge- 
inial, and benevolent, was his tone 
cof mind! How different was he 
ffrom the excited, restless, godless 
i fellows, who now turn an innocent 
rrecrealion into a consuming pas- 
ssion, to the indulgence of which 
liman’s highest duties are mostly 
‘Sacrificed ! It is true a man must 
ihave recreation: but must be not 
lalso have religion ? Even Lord 
iPalmerstoo would allow this; and 
lif the two are incompatible, which 
:must be sacrificed, religion or 
rrecreation? But I maintain that 
Ithey are compatible, and that 
■where there is a will there is a 
■■way even for the working man 
tto have both — to worship 
(God and to catch butterflies, 
IBut I am getting rather long and 
rrather warm too ; however, I be- 
Mieve I have said my say, and 
icommend these two propositions 
tto the consideration of your read- 
ters. — E. HoitTON, Wick, Worces^ 
Her; December 18, 1856. 
[We are not going to open our 
pages to arguments on this Sun- 
day question, but we like the tone 
of our correspondent’s remarks, 
and give them as the expression 
of his opinion. But we should 
like to know what good would 
come if the men allinled to were 
debarred from collecting on the 
Sunday? They would probably 
spend the time in idleness, in 
drinking or worse. They will not 
go to church ; they have no sym- 
pathy with it, nor will they have 
so long as the church shows so 
little sympathy with them. All his- 
tory shows it is vexatious and 
dangerous to interfere with men’s 
recreations. Men are not to be 
ntade good by force; and they 
had better, we think, be allowed 
to go to the woods and fields than 
left to the temptations of the town 
and public-house.] 
What’s his Name P — On placing 
Grammophora diphleroides in my 
cabinet the other day, 1 noticed 
that the name is wrongly spelt at 
pages 5294 of the ‘ Zoologist,’ and 
83 of the ‘ Substitute.’ lu both 
places it stands diptheroides. 
Guenee and Stainton have it 
diphtera, which I suppose is right. 
In Doubleday’s list it is spelt 
diphthera. Perhaps our learned 
friend Proh Pudor” will be so 
kind as to inform us which is the 
proper mode of spelling it. — N. 
Cooke, 6, Wenlivorth Street, 
Everton, Liverpool. 
The Packing of Specimens to 
Correspondents. — In the last num- 
ber of ‘The Substitute’ are some 
remarks on packing specimens to 
correspondents. Allow me to add 
a word on the packing Coleoptera. 
Though these latter are not liable 
to breaking in two like a cor- 
pulent moth, they are by no 
