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warm feeling of friendship remained. The correspondence 

 was never quite dropped and continued till Mr. Fox's death 

 in 1880. Mr. Fox took orders, and worked as a country 

 clergyman until forced by ill-health to leave his living in 

 Delamere Forest. His love of natural history was strong, 

 and he became a skilled fancier of many kinds of birds, &c. 

 The index to Animals and Plants, and my father's later 

 correspondence, show how much help he received from his 

 old College friend. 



C. D. to J. M. Herbert. September 14, 1828.* 



My dear old Cherbury, I am about to fulfil my 

 promise of writing to you, but I am sorry to add there is a 

 very selfish motive at the bottom. I am going to ask you a 

 great favour, and you cannot imagine how much you will 

 oblige me by procuring some more specimens of some in- 

 sects which I dare say I can describe. In the first place, I 

 must inform you that I have taken some of the rarest of 

 the British Insects, and their being found near Barmouth, 

 is quite unknown to the Entomological world : I think I 

 shall write and inform some of the crack entomologists. 



But now for business. Several more specimens, if you 

 can procure them without much trouble, of the following 

 insects : The violet-black coloured beetle, found on Craig 

 Storm, f under stones, also a large smooth black one very 

 like it ; a bluish metallic-coloured dung-beetle, which is 

 very common on the hill-sides ; also, if you would be so 

 very kind as to cross the ferry, and you will find a great 

 number under the stones on the waste land of a long, 

 smooth, jet-black beetle (a great many of these) ; also, in 

 the same situation, a very small pinkish insect, with black 

 spots, with a curved thorax projecting beyond the head ; 

 also, upon the marshy land over the ferry, near the sea, 

 under old sea weed, stones, &c, you will find a small yellow- 

 ish transparent beetle, with two or four blackish marks on 

 the back. Under these stones there are two sorts, one much 

 darker than the other ; the lighter coloured is that which I 

 want. These last two insects are excessively rare, and you 

 will really extremely oblige me by taking all this trouble 



* The postmark being Derby seems to show that the letter was written 

 from his cousin, W. D. Fox 1 s house, Osmaston, near Derby. 



t The top of the hill immediately behind Barmouth was called Craig- 

 Storm, a hybrid Cambro-English word. 



