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ourselves which we censure in them ; and itwas principally 

 upon this account that I rose to claim the discovery for the 

 rightful individual. In the observations in which I was replied 

 to, Mr. Bainbridge was thanked for divulging the secret. This, 

 Sir, is the chief cause of my sending you the present note, as 

 it was a pointed insinuation, that I wished to monopolize a 

 valuable discovery. So far from this being the case, allow me 

 to say, that it was through my intervention only that Mr. Bain- 

 bridge knew any thing about the matter ; for, after reading it, 

 I named it to Mr. Courtenay, requesting him to try its efficacy; 

 which he did, and found it fully answer. He mentioned it to 

 Mr. Desvignes, who acquainted Mr. Bainbridge with it. So 

 soon as I found that it was completely successful, knowing 

 how serviceable it would be to my brother Entomologists in 

 this country, who had long tried many things in vain to obtain 

 this object, I sent you, amongst others, a notice of it, before 

 the publication of your last Number, that it might become 

 generally known to English Entomologists. This, perhaps, 

 you will do me the favour to corroborate in a note, and thus 

 free me from the suspicion of wishing to conceal what would 

 be so extensively useful ; which is rendered the less probable 

 from my not possessing a collection of Lepidoptera, which are 

 the insects most injuriously affected by greasing, from which 

 cause it was that I could not experiment upon the utility of 

 the process myself. 



Yours, very truly, 



W. E. Shuckard.' 



Art. XXXV. — Note on (Estrus Equi ; the Bot of Horses. 

 By Bracy Clark. 



It would have been ill-natured not to have been pleased 

 with the various choice dishes served up in your last Number: 

 although some of them might not be exactly entomological, 9 

 they were very interesting, as usual, and graphically descrip- ■ 

 tive of their respective objects. 



But in penetrating farther into the Number, I was led to 

 observe the unexpected honour of my name being inserted, 



» We have pleasure in corroborating Mr. Shuckard's statement, altiiough we 

 consider bis assertion amply sufficient. — Editor. 



