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as every volume bears the book-plate of "John Francillon." There are 

 passed." I may say that this is evidently the set in the British Museum, 

 17 volumes (not 16) ; the first 15 bear the date 1792 on the printed title 

 pages, and the two last volumes 1804 (not 1809). The contents are as 

 follows : — 



Vols. 1-4. Coleoptera. 



" 5. Orthoptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera and Heteroptera. 



" 6. Lepidoptera Rhopalocera. 



" 7-1 1. Lepidoptera Heterocera. 



" 12. Neuroptera, Hymenoptera. 



" 13. Diptera. 



" 14. Arachnida. 



" 15. Myriopoda, Mallophaga, Acarina, Crustacea, Lepidoptera 

 (transformations), &c. 



" 16. Portrait, Orthoptera, Coleoptera (transformations), Lepidop- 

 tera (transformations). 



" 17. Lepidoptera (transformations). 



The drawings of transformations of Lepidoptera are rarely, if ever, 

 duplicates of those published by Smith, sometimes representing a different 

 variety of the larva of the same species ; and they are nearly three times 

 as numerous. There are only about a dozen drawings of transformations 

 of Coleoptera. Among the lesser-known orders, there is little doubt that 

 many species figured are still undescribed. 



I fully expect that some of Abbot's correspondence will be discovered 

 (of course, including his autograph), perhaps at the Antipodes, for 

 Swainson left England towards the clore of his life, and died, according 

 to Hagen, in New Zealand, in 1856. 



I am surprised that Mr. Scudder has not mentioned the volume of 

 Abbot's Drawings presented by Edward Doubleday to Dr. T. W. 

 Harris (Harris, Entomological Correspondence, p. 123). If this volume 

 is the same as that said by Mr. Scudder to have been presented by Dr. 

 J. E. Gray to Dr. Asa Gray, some error must have arisen. Possibly it 

 came into Dr. Asa Gray's hands directly, or indirectly, from Dr. Harris, 

 with an erroneous impression respecting the original English donor. 



There are a number of specimens originally collected by Abbot in the 

 British Museum, and probably in other collections. The Museum of the 

 Royal Dublin Society (now known as the Dublin Museum of Science and 



