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Hampstediensis,* Chimborazium,t Zamboanga,;); Mahallakoena,§ Maclagascariensis,|| &c., 
were bestowed on rare and lovely insects by the giants of Entomology, men from whose dictum 
there can scarcely be an appeal. 
I have now I trust done my duty towards Mr. Saunders, I can but make my salaam, 
reiterate my thanks, and adjure him not again to let his emotions so far overpower him as to 
make him lose his temper in the futile attempt to prove I had lost mine, a thing which I 
scrupulously avoid, as it unfits one for business or rational pleasures and, worst of all, it spoils 
digestion. Herman Strecker, Reading, Pa. 
The following letter, which I received just as the above was going to press, needs no 
comment of mine, and as I have the writer’s permission to use it as I please, I think the very 
best use I can make of it is to lay it before the “ Entomological World, ” not with the im- 
pression, however, that it will be astonished thereat after reading the foregoing pages : 
Room 4, No. 117 Broadway, New York, August 5, 1873. 
My Dear Sir : — You have doubtless read Mr. Saunders’ reply to your observations in the 2nd No. of your book. 
Not very satisfactory to you, I presume, and not very creditable to Saunders. 
The reply, however, recalls to my memory a circumstance which occurred now about a year since, and which is 
strongly illustrative of Saunders’ supercilious behavior, as I deem it. 
Believing him to have access to better libraries and larger collections than were within my reach, and further- 
more induced by the invitation extended to amateurs in columns of the Canadian Entomologist, to send their collec- 
tions to the Society for determination, I sent by the band of a personal friend a box of insects with the proper request. 
Not being sure that either Mr. Baynes Reed or Mr. Saunders was in London, I requested my friend to deliver 
the box to either party. 
I did not feel quite sure of my friend, so after "waiting a couple of months, without receiving any notice of the 
receipt of the box, I wrote both to Reed and Saunders enquiring if they had received such box. No answer came 
from either. I then caused enquiries to be made of my friend as to whom the box had been delivered, and the 
answer came, “ to Mr. Saunders, on the day after my arrival in London.” I again waited, perhaps another month, 
but no box, or acknowledgement of its receipt, arrived. 
I then wrote again to Saunders, stating all the circumstances, and requesting return of box, but up to this mo- 
ment no reply or notice of any kind has been received. 
As I am Agent here for the Entomologist, and have certainly done something toward extending its circulation, 
I call this rather cavalier treatment, while even towards a stranger I think Mr. Saunders’ conduct, (to use his own 
words,) “ to be unworthy a naturalist or a gentleman.” Yours, truly, 
W. Y. ANDREWS. 
You are at liberty to make any use you please of this note. 
It is reported that Commander Greer of the Tigress, the vessel which sailed a short time 
since in search of the crew of the Polaris, has said that there is to be no time wasted pickling 
fish, bottling bugs, &c. ; that the expedition will attend only to the object of its mission — the 
finding of the Polaris. If he even thought so, it is a disgrace to give utterance to such expres- 
sions, for, if but one new fact in science were attained, what, in comparison, are whole heca- 
tombs of paltry human lives, which, as one flickers out, legions arise to fill the place. When 
thousands have again and again been ignobly, ruthlessly, sacrificed in useless and foolish wars, 
the offspring of insane ambition, why should any one murmur at life endangered, or lost, in 
the noble cause of science. 
*Cynthia Hampstediensis, Steph. 
fNymphidium Chimborazium, Bates. 
IPieris Zamboanga, Feld. 
|Lycaena Maliallakoena, Walker. 
||Godartia Madagascarien.sk, Lucas, and Crenis Madagascariensis, Boisd. 
