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more satisfactorily if I had them back again. I have had no official receipt for them. They 

 were only meant in a provisional lot in case anyone wished to see them and if they are not 

 exhibited or entered if you wish to send them back to me I will send you the type lot complete. 



Yours faithfully, 



C. Wyville Thomson 



*I am sorry that there has been any mistake about the preliminary set of Echinids; but, re- 

 reading from letters, I must acquit myself of any share in the error. 



The specimens have not only been put into different bottles, but have been registered, 

 incorporated and reported to the Trustees; and by them to the House of Commons. 



It is now, therefore, impossible for me to acquiesce in your request that they should be 

 returned. It seems to me that the best thing to do will be to send me the type-series, when I will 

 have them compared with what have been already sent, and, if I find that it is possible to return 

 any of the freshly sent specimens, or finding that the characters and distribution of the species 

 collected is already well enough represented by the previous series, I will certainly do so, in 

 order that they may form a part of a good set for the museum, which has the second claim on this 

 National collection. 



So far as the specimens already sent are concerned, I may add that the assistant in my Depart- 

 ment who is especially charged with the care of this group has engaged himself to remain in 

 London until the end of August, and I may safely promise for him that he will spare no trouble 

 in giving all assistance in his power to the artist (2) or the describer (1), if they are desirous of 

 having another examination of the specimens already in the British Museum. 



Bonsyde 



Linlithgow, N.B. 



July 10, 1880 

 Dear Dr. Giinther : 



I am greatly obliged to you for the proofs which are already in the printer's hands. 



Yrs faithfully, 



C. Wyville Thomson 



Bonsyde 



Linlithgow, N.B. 

 July 15, 1880 

 Dear Dr. Giinther: 



Thank you so much for your note and for the first deep-sea fish plates. I suppose in these 

 plates you will simply put the name of the Fish beneath as we have done in the other groups 

 without locality or anything further. Either the generic name only or the generic and specific 

 as you think proper. 



It is all right about the Echinoderms. I thought it very possible you had incorporated them. 

 I daresay you could without much trouble send me a list of the species already sent. I think 

 I kept a duplicate list but I have changed my Secretary since, and I cannot at this moment lay 

 my hands on it. I want to be sure that you get every species the old as well as the (sic) those 

 not previously described. 



Yrs faithfully 



C. Wyville Thomson 



P.S. Can you readily send me by return the date when you got the shore-fishes and the date 

 when you returned me the Mss ? It has been suggested to me that these should be published in 

 all cases and I did not think of it at the time. 



C.W.T. 



* This letter, unsigned and undated, but in the same hand as that of March 29, 1880, is apparently 

 a first draft, Gunther to Thomson. 



