8 DR. BRACKENRIDGE CLEMENS' LETTERS. 



I have directed Mr. Bailliere to send me the " Weekly 

 Intelligencer" by every steamer, so that I can have the 

 satisfaction of knowing what others are doing among the 

 World of Insects. I have yonr Annuals for 5Q and 57, and 

 am about to order that for 1855. 



Permit me to hope, in conclusion, I have not wearied you 

 with my letter, &c, &c* 



[A considerable portion of the foregoing letter I inserted in the 

 "Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer," Vol. 2, p. 175, in the 

 hopes of thereby securing some correspondents for Dr. Cle- 

 mens, who would exchange insects with him. I do not 

 appear to have any copy of my reply to this letter. H. T. S.] 



II. 



Easton, Pennsylvania, United States, 

 December \2th, 1857. 



Allow me to thank you most cordially for your kind 

 attention to my previous letter. It has been the means of 

 securing me, as correspondent, a gentleman whom I do not 

 doubt will prove an estimable and worthy one, since I find 

 his name entered in the List of British Entomologists in the 

 Annual for 1856, as one who is willing to assist beginners. 

 This fact alone was sufficient to command my confidence, 

 and to induce me to embrace his offer to exchange with 

 pleasure. 



I intend to send you in my first box of exchanges to 

 Mr. Logan some specimens of an exquisitely beautiful leaf- 

 miner, which I found on the 18th of October, hi the leaf of 

 the locust tree {Tlouinia Pseud-acacia). I was fortunate 

 enough to secure about fifteen or eighteen pupae and two 



* This letter is signed " Breckenridge Clemens," and as the first I bad 

 received from him I learnt from it his name, and have repeatedly written and 

 spoken of him as Breckenridge Clemens : the next and all subsequent letters 

 are signed " Brackeuridgc Clemens." 11. T. S. 



