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into the chaise, still in a roar of launhter at the whole affair, and at his 

 awkward attempt to explain away his not having waited for us there, as 

 -we had directed, and evident high satisfaction at bringing back in triumph 

 to our inn the three cheats whose intended plans he had so cleverly frus- 

 trated, as he no doubt told his master ; to whom, being too much amused 

 with the adventure, we did not make any explanation, but left it to torm 

 one of the traditions of the inn. 



To return to our book : we had found the various investigations re- 

 quired, so much more numerous and difficult than we had calculated on, 

 that at the time of our separation in consequence of other engagements, 

 we had not done anything towards the preliminary and popular portion, 

 not having even definitely fixed what particular letters each should take ; 

 and though we had drawn up a provisional table of all the anatomical and 

 orismological terms which the science seemed to demand, there were 

 many of these still requiring further discussion before they could be 

 finally adopted. To these discussions, the thirty-seven letters we ex- 

 changed during the years 1809 and 1810 were mainly devoted, and of 

 these I shall give two of the earliest, to serve, as in the former instance 

 of our first Entomological correspondence, as a specimen of our way of 

 carrying on these investigations, and to show that we spared no labour 

 either of mind or pen to attain accurate notions on the subject. Of the 

 remaining letters (upwards of 100) which passed between us between 

 1809 and 1813, when the first volume of the work appeared, a great 

 portion of which was occupied with similar discussions, and with contri- 

 butions by each to the " Letters " of the other, I shall as before quote 

 only such detached passages, from a very few, as may be likely to interest 

 the entomologist and general reader. 



"Drypool, Nov. 20, 1809. 



" My dear Sir, — I have been long veiy impatient for the pleasure of 

 hearing from you, and but that for the last month we have been up to the 

 ears in brick and mortar, during which ray time was fully occupied with look- 

 ing after the workmen, I should before now have beat up your quarters ; for 

 by this time you have doubtless ended your metropolitan campaign, and are 

 safely seated in your Barhamian hybernacula, — rendered doubly agreeable by 

 your long absence. It is only such domesticated animals as you and I that 

 can feel all that is comprised in the word home, — feelings unknown to the 

 votaries of variety and dissii^tion. I take it ibr granted you duly received 

 the last long letter which I sent you through MacLeay about six weeks ago, 

 containing divers cogitations and suggestions relative to our work, on which 

 I long for your opinion ; fur having made a collection of materials for the 

 letters I am to undertake, I wish much to make a beginning upon them : but 

 this I cannot satisfactorily do until I have your ideas as to the plan we are to 

 follow. 



" As I never lose sight of the importance of putting our terms (doubtless 

 to be immortal!) to the ordeal of every possible objection, I have several 

 additional doubts and difficulties to propose to your consideration : and, first, 

 as to the Uia and Ischia, about which latter term I believe I said sometlung 

 in my last. I am now fully convinced that both terms are radically im- 

 proper, both as being anatomically incorrect, and as being unnecessary. In 

 the first place, Ilia employed in the plural number, as we must often employ 

 it, is quite incorrect, for the Ilia in anatomy are the flanks or sides of the 

 umbilical region of the abdomen. Anatomists always say Os ilium when they 



