54-6 Natural History in the English Counties: — 



General natural history (containing a good collection of British birds, &c.). 



Philosophical Society. 

 British birds, Rev. Dr. Thackeray, Provost of King's. 

 British birds. Rev. F. Henson, Tutor of Sidney. 

 British insects and plants. Rev. L. P. Garnons, Fellow of Sidney. 

 British plants, Rev. H. Kirby, Fellow of Clare Hall. 

 British zoology and botany. Rev. L. Jenyns, Swaffham-Bulbeck. 

 British insects and plants. Rev. Dr. Jermyn, SwafFham-Prior. 

 Mineralogy, Rev. H. Coddington, Fellow of Trinity. 

 Geology (a curious and extensive collection, from the diluvium in the 



neighbourhood), Rev. J. Plumptree, Great Gransden. 

 Shells and eggs, Rev. Dr. Lamb, Master of Corpus. 

 Mineralogy, Dr. Ingle, Fellow of Peterhouse. 

 British plants. Dr. F. Thackeray, Cambridge. 

 Mineralogy, Rev. T. Turnbull, Fellow of Caius. 

 Mineralogy and geology, Rev. W. Mandell, Fellow of Queen's. 

 British plants, Rev. W. Keeling, Fellow of St. John's. 



. I have not mentioned other collectors among the under-graduates, whose 

 residence here being ended at the expiration of three years, they carry 

 their collections away with them. I may mention, however, that Mr. Deck, 

 chemist, in the town, yearly imports a considerable number of minerals 

 from the Continent, as well as other objects of natural history, for whicji 

 he finds a ready demand j and that his shop is a most useful magazine of 

 all sorts of collecting apparatus in entomology, botany, &c. Yours, very 

 truly,— J. S. Henslow. Cambridge, Sept. 6. 1831. 



Mr. Thomas Denny, of the Hills' Road, near Cambridge, may also be 

 mentioned as an available channel through which to participate the animal 

 productions of Cambridgeshire. Mr. Denny captures and purchases for 

 sale the insects of the county ; as he does the skins of birds and other: 

 animals, which he also stuffs both for himself and for others ^-J.D. 



WARWICKSHIRE. 



Weaver's Museum of Natural History in Birmingham. — Sir, 

 It may be gratifying to your scientific readers, and to the 

 lovers of science generally, to learn that a museum has 

 sprung up in the heart of the kingdom, which may vie in 

 extent and splendour with any provincial collection in the 

 world. I shall, therefore, make no other apology for troubling 

 you with the present communication, than what may be 

 deemed necessary as a palliation of the inability with which I 

 shall describe its various and important contents. 



About fourteen years since, Mr. Weaver of Birmingham 

 commenced the study of entomology (chiefly from an innate 

 love of science, and an admiration of the splendour and fitness 

 of natural forms), and began to make a collection of insects. 

 Without fortune, or any of the facilities generally considered 

 necessary for accomplishing great and arduous undertakings, 

 but by the aid of persevering industry alone, he contrived, at 

 various periods, to visit most parts of England and Wales, in 

 pursuit of his favourite object. Being possessed of a quick 

 observation, he was enabled, in a great number of instances, 

 to discover the localities of insects entirely new to science, 



