YOUNG ENTOMOLOGISTS. 
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because all children run after butterflies, all who run after 
butterflies are children. As a friend of mine, a clergyman, 
when well advanced in life, while pursuing eagerly some in¬ 
sect, overheard the remark of some uninitiated in his occupa¬ 
tion, “Look at that big babby ! M and had his object been merely 
to catch an insect and look at it for a moment as children do, 
and then let it go again, he might indeed have been styled a 
“babby,” but then he would not have been an Entomologist. 
Kirby and Spence in their invaluable “Introduction to 
Entomology,” a work whose excellence is best understood 
by the fact of it having gone through six editions in this 
country, and been translated into several foreign languages, 
endeavoured to show that Entomologists are not to be despised 
as triflers, and no doubt at the present day many are disposed 
to accord them a higher rank, but still see two men in one 
field, the one standing patiently by the side of a stream try¬ 
ing with a rod in his hand to obtain a « glorious nibble,” the 
other with an Entomological net in his hand in full career 
after a butterfly (perhaps a Bath white), the passers-by will 
consider that the angler’s occupation has in it nothin^ con¬ 
temptible, and they will not gape and stare at him eveiT time 
he moves, while he who is in pursuit of his Baplidice will 
be regarded with very different feelings, and not a few jokes 
p bably ciacked at his expense. 
ha!! 3 ™ ° f i y0D , r h ° m 1 m ° re es P eeialI y ^dress are, per¬ 
haps, considered by your friends and relatives as following a 
foolish pursuit, and you are told you are wasting your time 
and naglee, studies; ^ ^ j hope ™ 
he sake*of r { * ^ "° dut ? shou,d be neglected for 
the a ke of pleasure, and you will find that you will enjoy 
CL ,0 " "° ne the l6SS f ° r b -d whilst 
b6gin (l believe without exception! 
IDg collectors of msects, and, therefore, he who is 
