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Xewa7-k (Del.), February 14. lSfi2. 



The affair last Monday evening so completely put everything else out of my 

 head that I forgot to have a talk with you about your note. Jst, we mtist fur- 

 nish the i)late for Osten Sackeu's next paper, and if he sends a plate for each 

 number of the Proceedings, they 7iiust also be furnished; no doubt a considera- 

 ble number of his Extras are sent to Europe, and thus bring the Society to the 

 favorable notice of European Entomologists, which is very desirable under pre- 

 sent circumstances. I quite agree with j'ou that Mr. ought to have the 



$3 for the plate which he has so well executed, and I think also that it would 

 be taxing him more than his fair j^roportion to expect him to execute all future 

 plates at the same rate, especially if we should have a plate for each number : 

 but, considering the interest he takes in the Society, perhaps he would be will- 

 ing to do them at three-fourths the usual rate; suppose you have a talk with 

 him on the subject. I am quite willing to put in S25 for the publication fund, 

 or wliatever may be necessary to put the Proceedings through in a jiroper man- 

 ner. 



In j'our note you say "The copies (500) of our lirst plate will, or is expected 

 to be, at the room this evening." I hope you have not forgotten to have twen- 

 ty-five more struck off for Osten Sacken's extras: if you have, please have them 

 struck off before the figures on the stone are rubbed out. 



When you mentioned to me that Mr. Ridings was going to send to England 

 for pins and I gave you the samples, I forgot to give you the money to buy the 

 sovereigns. Please ask Mr. Ridings the cost of what he sent out on my account, 

 and I will pay him next week when I go to the city. This was one of the things 

 that was knocked out of my head last Monday evening. 



Philadelphia, May 21, 1862. 



I have received the jiroposed Seal for the Society and enclose you half a 

 dozen impressions which I have taken from it, for the inspection of Members, 

 so that they may adopt it at the next meeting with a knowledge of its charac- 

 ter and appearance. You will see that the artist has shown the spurs on the 

 tibise and even the hairs on the under side of the upper projection from the 

 thorax; — the thorax is more depressed than in the photograph or the inseet 

 sent to the artist, but I presume he has done this, in order to give it the air of 

 examinining carefully the ground before making a step, so as to make it cor- 

 respond with the motto. [Festina lente.] 



Some of the impressions which I enclose are not so good as the others, luit 

 they all show that the small press to which the Seal is attached is sufficiently 

 powerful to make a good impression on paper without the aid of wafers. 



In conversation with Mr. . I mentioned that we proposed to place at 



the top of our Certificates of Membership a full-sized beetle with its motto, 

 when he made a suggestion which I think will be better: that is, not to d<i so. 

 but instead of it, to stamp every Certificate with the Seal of the Society : he 

 thought this would give the Certificate a more authentic air than the beetle at 

 the top; from the enclosed specimens you will see that this can very easily be 

 done if we use paper for our Certificates as thick or even thicker than the spe- 

 cimens enclosed, and I do not see any special reason why we should go to the 

 expense of having our Certificates printed on iJarchment. 



I throw out these suggestions for the consideration of yourself and the other 

 members of the Committee, should the Committee think it advisable to propose 



