16 APRIL 1892, Page 16

RUSTIC NATURALISTS.

[To THZ EDITOR Or isa " $PECTATOR:] may interest the readers of your interesting article on "Rustic Naturalists" (April 2nd), to learn that there is in our local museum a splendid collection of moths, gathered in a radius of twenty-seven miles of Reading, during a period of twenty-seven years, by a working man still residing in the town. The attendant in the museum, an old soldier and a very intelligent man, is always pleased to show them to people studying the subject.-1 am, Sir, &c., .Reading, April 10th. A rznraoss D.