1 78 Hints for hnp^ovemenfs, 



SwafFham. Robert Hammand, Esq. Ornithology. Fine Specimen of 

 Great BustarcL 



*Mr. C. B. Rose. Geology. Diluvium and Hard Chalk. 

 Yarmouth. Girdlestone, Esq. Ornithology. 



Mr. Harvey. Ditto. Dealer. 



Mr. John Smith. Entomology and Eggsu 



Dawson Turner, Esq. Botany. 



To this list we- beg to add the name of the Rev. Thomas Image of 

 Whepstead, near Bury ' St. Edmund's, Suffolk, who possesses a general 

 and intimate knowledge of nature, and is rich in specimens in all the 

 departments, but most so in that of chalk fossils,. These he exchanges 

 with correspondents in different parts of the kingdom for the redundant 

 specimens of their neighbourhoods, and he has many in slate from West- 

 moreland, obtained in this way. We remember, with proud and grate- 

 ful feelings, the patience and pleasure with which he showed us, some 

 time since, many matters of the highest interest in his excellent collection, 

 and entertain not the slightest doubt, from what we experienced from Mr. 

 Image, that he would be most willing to gratify any fellow student with the 

 sight of it. 



The Rev. T. E. Rogers, of Laekford, near Bury St. Edmund's, has 

 also a fine collection of fossils and shells. These are splendid specimens, 

 and many of them Swiss, and the fruit of his own [most diligent personal 

 research in that country. His cabinet contains a specimen, but whether 

 foreign or British we are not aware, of the extremely rare OVula Leathesii 

 figured in Sowerby's Genera of Fossil Shells, and named in compliment to 

 the Rev. G. R. Leathes, Shropham Hall, Norfolk, by whom it was first 

 discovered in one of the Norfolk crag pits. We perceive with pleasure 

 this gentleman's name in our correspondent's Norfolk list ; and from per- 

 sonal experience of the great liberality and kindness of Mr. Leathes, who 

 is, on all occasions, .the warmest patron of natural history pursuits, we are 

 confident he would be happy to meet the wishes of any brother collector. 

 The botanic garden at Bury St. Edmund's has derived very important 

 advantages from this gentleman's influence and great hberality. 



At Bury St. Edmund's, also, the Rev. Henry Hasted, A.M., possesses 

 most interesting cabinets of natural productions, and amongst them many 

 rare local fossils. — J. D.for Cond. 



Depot for Exchange of Specimens. — Sir, I approve so highly of H. C. 

 W.'s suggestion of a depot for the exchange and sale of specimens, and 

 feel so confident that such an establishment will both be generally accept- 

 able, and will remunerate the proprietor, that I hope you will allow me to 

 say a few words in furtherance of the plan. I take it for granted that most 

 lovers of natural history are collectors of subjects in their favourite 

 •branches, for future reference and collation ; and those who are not, espe- 

 cially young students, ought immediately to become so. The very partial 

 distribution of many of our native plants and insects (which constitute 

 their variety), and the causes named by your correspondent, which confine 

 most of our respective districts, present obstacles against forming extensive 

 collections which only a favoured few can overcome; and not unfrequently 

 occasion erroneous ideas of species known only through the medium of 

 books, and are a great bar to extended views and general conclusions. 

 Faithful coloured engra^^ngs are too expensive for the majority; indifferent 

 ones are worse than useless ; and even the best are less valuable for 

 reference than the specimens themselves. At present, very few of these 

 last can be purchased, even in London ; some of our birds perhaps may, 

 and the entomologist, by well-directed exertion, may procure a few of our 

 "finer Lepidoptera ; but the botanist of plants absolutely none. The great 

 stimulus lately given to every department of natural history by many able 



