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of hostile criticism. There is cer- 
tainly good reason for the latter 
supposition, for entomologists, as a 
l)ody, are a jealous and waspish 
race, given to sting and deficient 
in honey. So it should not be ; 
but we believe many young stu- 
dents are deterred from publish- 
ing by the fear of being cut up. 
Let such take courage ; they need 
fear no criticism if they will only 
master their subject ; then what- 
ever an individual may say, the 
worth of their matter will be ap- 
preciated by an audience that will 
judge for itself irrespective of any 
.single person’s dictum. To that 
the larger number of older ento- 
mologists who know so much, and 
yet keep the knowledge to them- 
selves, or at most a select circle of 
friends, we would say that every 
consideration that should weigh 
with a naturalist calls upon them 
to communicate their learning by 
publication. It may be their 
stores of matter require to be sys- 
tematised ; this would be no diffi- 
cult thing for them to do, and 
they themselves would be gainers 
by the process. 
While, then, we should like to 
see an increase of writers on sys- 
tematic Entomology, we, on the 
whole, demur to the conclusion 
that, on account of the paucity of 
writers, “ either entomologists are 
not clever, or clever men do not 
become entomologists.” We will 
not quibble about the exact mean- 
ing attached to the word “ clever,” 
but according to our notion a man 
may be very clever and yet never 
put pen to paper ; and we also 
believe that many entomologists 
are clever men who have not 
showed themselves — silent lovers 
who have yet to make their decla- 
ration. No doubt the paper in the 
‘Annual’ is intended to put such 
persons on their mettle. May it 
succeed ! 
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