130 GHENT TO GLOGAU, ETC. 



and Herr Moewe, of Stockholm, who arrived by the steamer 

 whilst we were there. 



June the 5th we left Stettin, and arriving in Berlin the 

 same evening;, I had first an interview with Herr Grabow, 

 who kindly lent me his beautiful drawings of the transfor- 

 mations of Micro- Lepidoptera (which I exhibited at the 

 July meeting of the Entomological Society) ; and there I 

 met for the first time Graf v. Nicelli : this, as many of my 

 readers will know, was no ordinary meeting ; we had both 

 made the same subject our hobby for years, and I was well 

 aware that latterly he had concentrated his attention on the 

 subject (the genus Lithocolletis) much more than I had 

 ever done (for few things now appear to me more rubbishy 

 than the Monograph of British Argyromiges, which in 

 1848 I inflicted upon the readers of the Zoologist). Graf 

 v. Nicelli showed me his manuscript, and his drawings of 

 the wings of the insects : and I unhesitatingly declare, that 

 if the publication of that elaborate Memoir takes place, as I 

 hope and believe it will, it must inevitably take a high rank 

 among the contributions to Entomological science. 



The next morning we left Berlin and proceeded to Cassel. 

 We had intended stopping at Eisenach, but an Evangelical 

 Conference being on there at that time, we were afraid of 

 having a difficulty in finding lodgings, and therefore pro- 

 ceeded to Cassel ; we had some of the learned divines for 

 fellow travellers in our railway carriage, and they told one 

 another diverting stories the whole day, and kept us fully 

 amused, though I don't profess to say I understood a tithe 

 of what they said, yet with so much gesture and action it 

 was a very different affair from three Englishmen talking 

 quietly together, moving little but their lips. 



From Cassel we proceeded, on the 7th of June, to Frankfort 

 on the Maine. I had always had a great idea of going to 

 Frankfort long before I conceived the grander idea of Glogau 



