THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 66.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1858. [Price 1 d. 
Leaves of the Evergreen Oak, mined by the Larvte 
of Lithocolletis Messaniclla. (See p. 106.) 
THE NEW YEAR. 
Success to the season of 1858! Who 
doesn’t mean to do wonders? We all 
do. But then what we all accomplish 
will hardly deserve the title of a wonder. 
But stop a bit; we do not say that 
we shall all do wonders, but that we 
all mean to do wonders. And there is 
a mighty difference between meaning 
and doing ! None of our readers are 
so young as not to have discovered that 
they do not always do what they in- 
tend; none of our readers are so old 
but that they are still intending to do 
more than they can perform. And so 
it should ever be, for he who would 
shoot high must aim at the sun. We 
must always be striving after something 
which we never can attain, just because 
by so striving we attain further than 
we otherwise should do. 
Just at present so much conviviality 
and family merry-makings are going on 
that probably Entomology is with many 
more completely under a cloud at this 
season than at any period of the year; 
but the period has been when we always 
used to turn out, lantern in hand, be- 
fore 6 a.m. on the 1st of January, to 
signalize the New Year by a capture 
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