276 CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN 



CHAPTER IV. 



Correspondence between H. T. Stainton and B. D. 

 Walsh of Rock Island, Illinois, on the Death of 

 Dr. Brackenridge Clemens. 



MOUNTSFIELD, LEWISHAM, NEAR LONDON, 

 July 23rd, 1867. 



To B. D. Walsh, Esq. 



Six years ago Dr. Hagen, who was then spending a 

 fortnight with me, mentioned your name to me, and suggested 

 that I should find you a valuable correspondent. 



Since then I have frequently perused with pleasure your 

 papers in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of 

 Philadelphia, but I had already one American Correspondent 

 in Dr. Brackenridge Clemens, and as I find it some trouble 

 to keep up with all my European correspondence, I did not 

 desire to increase my trans-Atlantic correspondence. 



Now, alas ! poor Clemens is dead. His portrait hangs 

 before me as I write. I ask myself, shall I ever know such 

 another Micro-Lepidopterist out of Europe ? To have done 

 what he did, with all the disadvantages of a new country, 

 with no collections for reference, appears to me marvellous ! 



I should be very glad if you could give me some informa- 

 tion of the latter days of Dr. Clemens. I have heard nothing 

 but what I see in the Proceedings of the Entomological 

 Society of Philadelphia, Vol. VI. No. 2. 



I had not heard from Dr. Clemens since October, 1860. 

 I had written twice to him in 1863, but no reply. No doubt, 

 like myself, he Avas very fully occupied with correspondents 

 nearer home. 



It occurs to me that unless some other Micro-Lepidopterist 

 rises up in your country, you may occasionally wish to make 

 use of me to determine species that you may breed. I shall 



