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rnocEEDiNGS or the 



Ea-I'inesque-Schmaltz, C. S. (cont,). 



7 April 1811. Thanks for S.'s list 



22 June 1811. 



4 July 1811. 



10 July 1811. 

 15 Oct. 1811. 



12 Dec. 1811. 

 7 Jan. 1812. 



12 Jan. 1812. On 



Messina. 



13 Jan. 1812. 



Palermo. 

 IFeb. 



1812. 



sends Lim his own in 



return. 

 On various botanical subjects — on the manifold 



works he is engaged in at present. 

 On miscell. botanical matters — catalogues various 



classes of the Sicil. Fauna ; does not well 



rmderstand Insects. 

 Sends S. plants with list. 

 Sends S. American plants and a list of the 



Crustacea of Sicily comprising 34 " genusses " 



and 95 species. 

 Reiterates his request for plants. 

 On miscell. matters, chiefly botanical, already 



referred to in previous letters — a new genus 



of Crabs. 



zoolog. and botan. books useful for S., and 



wanted by himself. 

 Letter from S. to R., descriptive of his entomolog. 



collection, and of supposed new fishes — 



contemplates a ' Fauna sicula.' 

 A cool reply from R. to foregoing letter^ — tells S. 



that S.'s collection is very incomplete, naming 



some of his " new " species — will collect fishes 



in spirit for S. 

 Has collected some 30 fishes for S. — gives a list 



of the insects of Barbary found also in Sicily. 



Continues coUectiuo: fishes — new crabs. 



7 Feb. 1812. 



Feb. 1812. 

 Mar. 1812. 



3 April 1812. Dissatisfied with S. as correspondent — gives S. 

 advice as to his journey to Greece. 



A list of 310 Sicilian Birds. 



Q Oct. 1813. Interruption of correspondence partly owing to 



financial matters, partly to S.'s absence in 



(Greece — R. is a candidate for the chair of 



Botany in Palermo — sends Prospectus of anew 



encyclopsed. journal. 



5 May 1813. About the new journal — regrets that S.'s journey 



to Greece proved unsatisfactory — has Shaw's 



works, but not Bloch's — offers sets of plants 



for sale— Botany in Palermo — would take any 



post for " a trifling annuity '' — has sent four 



tracts to Linn. Soc. — contents of the first 



number of ' Specchio delle Scienze ' — has 



paid little attention to Entomology — number 



of Sicilian fishes 420. 



1 Dec. 1813. Desires to enlarge S.'s list of 150 Maltese plants 



into a Florula nielitensis — there are ten 



Natural Classes of Plants — corresponds with 



J. E. Smith & J. Banks, but they are scarce 



of their favours — desires to be an Assoc. Linn. 



Soc. and Professor of Agriculture in Palermo. 



10 June 1815. A characteristic letter, full of commissions which 



S. is expected to execute for R, in Naples. 

 18 June 1815. .' 



