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THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
one. I being an incipient, another inci- 
pient may know much more than I do, 
and perhaps is as able, and more willing, 
to help me on the very (minor) point on 
which I require assistance than Sir Men- 
tum Thorax, who might introduce to my 
notice the beautiful subject of a true 
Parthenogenesis of Moths and Bees, 
when what I want is some one to show 
me which is a moth and which a bee. 
Or should Professor E. Lytra induce me 
to attend to his scientific work “ On the 
Variation of Species,” I (as an incipient) 
may ask perhaps “ What is a species?” 
Although, be it understood, I do not wish 
it to go forth that I am depreciating any 
efforts to aim high : what I want to im- 
press upon incipients is that joining a 
Society of Entomologists is well calcu- 
lated to give them that help which so 
many require. 
Supposing our young incipient captures 
a strange moth, beetle, butterfly, bug, fly, 
or other insect, and don’t know what it is, 
take it to the monthly meeting ; in all 
probability some one will be present 
capable of naming it, or at any rate the 
incipient has the means of finding out 
himself by the books in the Society’s 
library. 
But let this thought always suggest 
itself to the incipient — “ when ” and where 
“ found, make a note of.” Keep your 
diary, I say ; detail every fact ; record 
every observation, never mind however 
trivial, no one will laugh at it except 
those who have not the wit to keep one 
themselves ; and your notes need not 
necessarily be put away, but may be 
saved and in due time recorded in the 
shape of a “ paper.” Many a great man 
profits in after life by the observations of 
his earliest youth. 
Bo not be disheartened if you arc con- 
tinually seeing in your diary records of 
captures of white butterflies, as some day 
you may meet with “ a great unknown,” 
and, by the help of your diary, may be 
able to inform the world that your 
Vanessa Antiopa was “ captured, April 1st, 
at Dorking.” — H. F. G. 
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THE SECOND VOLUME OF 
THE NATURAL HISTORY OF 
THE TINEINA, 
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LITHOCOLLETIS, Part I. 
11Y 
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Zeller and J. W. Douglas. 
London: John Van Voorst, 1, Pater- 
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The number for November will con- 
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