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being published : to have gone minutely into all the points 

 that interested me would have kept me fully employed for 

 a week ; but Herr Dohrn was inexorable, and we were only 

 to stop at Glogau one clear day — but of all the things I met 

 with at Professor Zeller's house, perhaps nothing made a 

 greater impression upon me than the pudding (and T believe 

 I returned it the complement) ; it was the first genuine first- 

 rate German pudding we had met with, and a journal of our 

 doings would be very incomplete unless this pudding received 

 honourable mention. 



The following morning I did not call on my friend till 

 half-past six, thus allowing him a reasonable time to attend 

 to his own Entomological concerns, for caterpillars will 

 want food, and moths will come out in our cages and want 

 setting, however busy we may be. Later in the day we 

 were joined by a Coleopterist, Captain Quedenfeld, and 

 Herr Milkner; and we went for an excursion to the Stadt- 

 wald, an immense pine wood, where the imagination 

 w y as impressed with a feeling of awe from the apparent 

 infinity of the forest. On looking around the eye wandered 

 through rows of trees, not resting upon any horizon caused 

 by an inequality in the ground; nor by the density of the 

 forest obstructing the view, but actually losing itself gra- 

 dually in the distance. It was as when one sees the ocean 

 for the first time! Of our doings in the Stadt-wald I have 

 a very pleasant recollection ; the cocoons and dead ichneu- 

 moned larvae of Eutricha Pint had a charm for me they 

 would never have possessed but for the species having been 

 reputed British. Portions of the pupa skin of Sphinx Pinas- 

 tri also appeared to me as holy relics ; but presently friend 

 Zeller shouts out Dia ! and then I saw this Melitcea flitting 

 about, and presently secured by Zeller's well-skilled forceps. 

 Bye-and-bye, in a broad avenue in the wood, Papilio 

 Machaon soared near the tops of the trees. Here I was 



