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Also, in mentioning several insects, you give their old and exploded names ; 
this I consider bad, because it is losing the ground which the scientific Natu¬ 
ralist has with difficulty gained. I strongly recommend Mr. Stephens’ 
Catalogue to you, (which you have noticed in No. 2, p. 89,) which will be of 
great use in correcting bad spelling, and giving modern names. You should 
request your Correspondents to write scientific names legibly. 
The following are a few of the errors which I have observed, with their 
corrections :—• 
At p. 30, C ossm Ugniperda is spelt Ligniporda, In the same page the 
Bombycidas are called Bamlycidce. At p. 39, Carybydee should be Carabid<e. 
Noctudi<E should be Noohddce. Aparaice, Apiarice, At p. 90, Stomoxys cal- 
citrans is given caloytrans. In the same page we have Cicindella for Cicindela. 
'The. Ab-raxas (G eometra) Grossukmata is called Grossularia. Tipula Tritice 
should be Cecidomyia Tritici. At p. 142, Vanessa atalanta is spelled atatanta. 
Atp. 89 you laudably lament the pain to which insects are put, in killing 
them. A lingering death may be avoided. Beetles are instantly killed by 
dropping them into scalding water; Butterflies, large Moths, and Dragon 
Flies, by pinching the thorax, and then taking them by the underside of the 
wings, and dipping the underside only of the thorax and abdomen in scalding 
water; and the smaller Moths, Flies, and other delicate insects, by smothering 
them with sulphur. These methods are fully detailed (together with very 
copious instructions for collecting, rearing, and preserving insects,) in a very 
useful little work, published about three years ago, by Mr. Ingpen, A.L.S. 
Should anything in the above hasty lines meet with your attention, I will 
in my next send you a sketch of an instrument for killing insects, by means of 
heat from boiling water, without in the slightest degree injuring their colours; 
which some of the above methods are not entirely free from producing, 
I am, Gentlemen, your well-wisher, 
Carabus Nitrus. 
Portraits. —Gentlemen, I beg respectfully, as a Subscriber, to enter my 
protest against your proposed intention of introducing the Biography and 
Portraits of Gardeners and Naturalists, and instead of which, to act upon the 
suggestion of a “Lover of Gardens.” I am, Gentlemen, yours, respectfully. 
Hampshire, Nov. 11, 1831. J. C. 
Remarks. —Gentlemen, it was with pleasure that I beheld the first number of 
your Register, hoping that we should have a very cheap work, and one that 
would contain nothing but what is useful to the Gardener or the Naturalist, 
but in that I find I was mistaken, and what I have to complain of is, that in 
your last number there are “Remarks on the Erection of Labourers’ Cot¬ 
tages.” Now what use are those remarks to a gardener? I should think 
none; unless he undertakes to superintend the building of Labourer’s Cot¬ 
tages in his district. That Article has no more business in a Horticultural 
Register, than the first article “ on the Culture of the Dahlia ” would have in 
a “Builder’s Guide,’’ I hope we shall have no more articles that way. 
The article “On Destroying the House Sparrow,” instead of occupying two 
pages might have been contained in a few lines, which would have made room 
for more valuable information, as most gardeners well know that method. 
Pray be particular in spelling the names of plants, as many errors have al¬ 
ready occurred that way: for instance, Lopkospermum erubheens, p. 189, is on 
