THE PUBSUIT OF ENTOMOLOGY. 
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standard work on the subject, there was not room left for 
notices of the rare species which have become common, 
without swelling the book to a size which, by enhancing its 
cost, would have diminished its usefulness by limiting its 
circulation. 
Entomologists are not drawn from the wealthy, but rather 
from the working classes; an extra sixpence or two in the 
price of this book might put it completely beyond the reach 
of a large circle of Entomologists. An Entomologist is 
none the less one because he wears fustain, and “ labours, 
working with his handsand in very many of this class 
the innate love of these beautiful objects of creation, the 
Butterflies and Moths, supplies them with one of their 
purest pleasures. Should not such tastes and such pursuits 
be encouraged? An observation, if new, is as important by 
whomsoever made; and a Spitalfields weaver may supply 
some important gap in our knowledge, which Oxford and 
Cambridge put together would fail to elucidate. 
To those who have not yet left school, I would suggest 
that the Midsummer holidays of the school-boy afford op¬ 
portunities of making Entomological captures, which rarely 
re-occur in after life. At no subsequent period are they 
likely to have so much time thrown completely on their 
hands; hence it is that many of our rarest species have 
been taken by Entomologists while yet in their teens, and 
much more would, no doubt, be accomplished by them, if 
older and more experienced Entomologists would assist the 
young inquirers with information. Those who have acquired 
information should endeavour to render it as useful as thev 
can, y communicating it to as wide a circle as possible*- 
and acung on this principle, I am always happy to answ e ; 
any inquiries addressed to me by young Entomologists. 
