view, I thought they were geminated. If it is new to you, I 

 shall present it to you on the first opportunity. 



Fig. 1. 



I would take the Hberty to request of you to lend me your 

 volumes of Schonherr, or-any other work on Entomology which 

 you think would assist me in making out the genera and spe- 

 cies of insects, if you are not about to make usT3 of them during 

 the ensuing vacation ; be assured that they will be used with 

 care and returned safely to you. Since the publication of Prof. 

 Peck's lectures has been given up, I have had some thoughts 

 of devoting a portion of my leisui'e to describing the insects in 

 this vicinity, and though I feel incompetent to the task, still I 

 would undertake it, unless I find it likely to be undertaken by 

 some one else ; any assistance you could afford me would be 

 gratefully received and duly acknowledged, 



1 See also the letter of Sept. 4, 1828 (Harris to Hentz). 



