YOUNG ENTOMOLOGISTS. 
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like myself, would gladly afford any beginner such infor¬ 
mation as he might feel disposed to seek—but how is the 
tyro to get acquainted with any of these useful members of 
the community? Of course I cannot answer so clearly for 
others as I can for myself, but I know this, that if any young 
collector (not under fourteen years of age) were to write to 
me for information, I should be more pleased at receiving 
his inquiry than he would be at obtaining my answer, and 
let him not imagine that I am a sedate elderly person witli 
no fellow feeling for a mischievous school boy; I have no 
sedateness about me, and am as full of fun as any one, and 
as the late Dr. Arnold used, when at Laleham, to “romp 
and play in the garden, or plunge with a boy’s delight into 
the Thames, entering into his pupils’ amusements with 
scarcely less glee than themselves,” so I am quite ready 
to participate in the delight of the youngest Entomologist, 
on adding some species to his collection, or some new fact 
to his knowledge; but further to facilitate the first step, and 
we all know that “ ce n’est que le premier pas qui coute,” 
I here give samples of letters, such as may be useful as 
models by those seeking for information :— 
“ Dear Sir, 
, “ Encouraged by your invitation in the Entomolo¬ 
gist s Annual, I write to ask if you can tell me at what time 
at 1 T /r * s ^ lou ^ see k f° r the larvae of the Emperor 
Moth ( Saturnia Carpini ), and which would be the most 
likely localities in which to find them. 
“ Believe me, dear Sir, 
“ Yours very truly, 
“ Dear Sir, 
“I 
low, with Ion 
lately found a hairy caterpillar of a bright yel- 
g red tufts of hair and a black chain-like mark 
