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Hansdorf, where the Glogau branch turns off, we had an 

 hour to wait and dined there, not foreseeing the dinner that 

 awaited us at Glogau ; from Hansdorf to Glogau the country- 

 was generally far more extensively cultivated, and therefore 

 less interesting to the eyes of an Entomologist. 



In due time we arrived at Glogau, and found Professor 

 Zeller and his daughter (who speaks English very fluently) 

 waiting for us at the station. So we arrived at Glogau, 

 and in due time were leaving the inn for the " Lares and 

 Penates" of the great Micro-Lepidopterist; he called my 

 attention to a red-brick building, a powder magazine, add- 

 ing, "And in the neighbourhood of that I live!" My 

 readers need not take this as a caution not to entrust their 

 unique specimens to Professor Zeller for his determination, 

 for since then my friend has changed his domicile. The con- 

 versation carried on between Mrs. Zeller and Mrs. Stainton 

 was no doubt an extremely interesting one ; for as neither 

 could speak a word of the language of the other, it was 

 necessarily carried on by the eyes. There was a very pretty 

 look out from the Professor's upper-window, for being near 

 the walls of the town we looked clean over them on to the 

 plantations on the glacis, where nightingales were then sing- 

 ing a most hearty welcome to us ; and in the distance we 

 saw an extensive plain (for the country is all tolerably flat 

 there), through which the sluggish Oder, then fast overflow- 

 ing his banks, wended his way. Inside the room I must 

 not forget to notice a little pet canary bird, so tame that it 

 would perch on your finger, but which was rather shy of 

 taking such liberties with strangers. This canary bird is 

 since dead ! 



Of the Entomological wonders I saw at Glogau it is im- 

 possible here to enter into fully ; very many species long 

 known to me by name I then saw for the first time. I 

 found many species that have never yet had the honour of 



