The First Night's Sugaring in England. 35
the extreme, and sent for me to learn the details. After a
few nights' adventures with sugar he wrote to the late
Edward Newman, telling of the utilisation of sugar for the
capture of moths. An article in the 'Zoologist' sent the
entomological world to the woods with the sugar-can and
lanthorn, and thus began the now well-known practice of
sugaring by which our collections were rapidly enriched with
new species, with rarities, and, above all, with good and fresh
examples.