1810.] Scarcity of Small Change.—Entomolog ical Society. 
against our better judgment, something 
like partiality. But more of his vices, 
and some remarks on his wit, in my next. 
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To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
BEG leave, by means of your widely- 
extended miscellany, to suggest a 
remedy for the very great inconvenience 
arising from the want of small change, or 
of a greater quantity of good silver in 
circulation, which has induced many to 
wish that bank-notes of 10s. value might 
be issued. But this, as I cannot but 
think, would be remedying one evil at 
the expence of another, as we have cere 
tainly paper enovg)h in circulation. 
What therefore I here, mean to pro- 
pose, as a matter that would answer 
exactly the same end 4s 10s. notes, 
{except in payments under 20s.) is to 
call in the 2/. notes now in circulation, 
and in their room to issue thirty shilling 
notes, ove of which notes, in addition to 
those now in use, would, in all payments 
to any amount in which there were from 
7 to 14 odd shillings, reduce the change 
required. to a mere trifle. For instance, 
were a payment of 13/, 12s. to be made, 
2 ten pound and two one pound notes, 
with one of 30s. would reduce the 
change to 2s. Qr, were tea guineas to 
he paid, a five pound-and four one pound 
notes, with one of, 30s. would exactly 
raise the sum in paper. 
Perhaps a 50s. (or half 57. note) may 
by some be preferred ; but as these will 
be of no immediate use in payments 
under 40s. which perhaps form the 
majority of retail shop payments, the 
30s. note would certainly be of much 
more general use. And I cannot help 
thinking but that even payments under 
20s. will be facilitated by the introduc- 
tion of the notes here proposed, for as 
the quantity of silver and smal] gold. used 
in larger payments will, by this means, 
be much lessened, there will of course 
remain a larger quantity in circulation 
for common retail paymeats. | 
Having mentioned this proposal lately 
to a banker im the country, he observed, 
then an objection would probably be 
made to the introduction of any new 
kind of note form the mistakes it might 
occasion, amongst illiterate persons in 
particular, as was frequently the case in 
respect to bank post bills, As however, 
in these Jast, odd shillings are often in- 
serted witha pen, and not printed on the 
note, there can be no wonder at_ these 
being sometimes overlooked, and not 
1. 
merely by illiterate persons. But as to 
any mistake naturally arising from the 
difference between notes for thirty shil- 
lings and other sums, legibly printed 
thereon, it certainly cannot be more, 
likely to happen, than between the one 
and two pound notes, or the five and 
ten pound ones, already in common 
use. M. 
— 
Lo the Hditor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
Herne been lately made ace 
quainted with a singular misrepre= 
sentation, which has gone forth respect-. 
Ing the Entomological Society, I entreat, 
you to insert in your Magazine a short 
explanation of the principles uson which 
this yet infant society is founded. ~ 
The origin of the society, first esta- 
blished under the denomination of the 
Aurelian Society, has been faithfully 
set forth, together with its designs 
and objects, in Mr. Haworth’s two 
‘publications, Lepidoptera Britannica, 
and the Prodromus which preceded 
that work. Of Jate, however, a fancied 
discovery has been made that 1t was pro- 
jected in a schismatic mood im opposition 
to the Linnean Society, and also with a 
design to attack, in unjustifiable criti- 
cism, the works of Mr. Donovan. ~All 
this appears to me too. absurd to. be 
received by any reflecting person, and 
had I not the best founded information 
that Mr. Donovan has entertained to 
the utmost extent of credulity the above 
ideas, and that his partizans are actively 
endeavouring to stop the increase of the . 
society, and undermine ‘its fabric, I 
‘should not have considered it necessary 
to give an additional explanation of the 
purposes, intentions, and ends, ior 
which the Entomological Society has 
been established. iii 
Far from its being an opponent to the 
Linnzan Society, £' deem it an intro- 
ductory seminary to raise ‘future candi- 
dates for admission into that ever by me 
revered society. This, a short statement, 
I trust, will convince every one to be 
true. 
At the head of the Entomolcgical 
Society, and amongst its original pro-~ 
moters, are found several fellows 
of the Linnzan Society, These are 
gentiemen, who united’ to their stu- 
dies in natural history, the personal 
labour of cojlecting the insects of Enge 
land. Their pursuits and habits threw 
them into accidental mecting, and con- 
sequently a temporary acquaintance with 
other practical collectors, who were as 
ZEaAGUs 
