PSYCHE. 



SOME OLD CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN HARRIS, SAY AND 



PICKERING.— VIII. 



[HARRIS TO SAY.] 



Cambridge, Mass. March 21, 1S34. 

 To Thos. Say Esq^. 



Dear Sir, 



On the 27th November 

 I wrote to give you information that 

 my long-promised collection of insects 

 was shipped in a large case, in the 

 Tarquin from Boston for New-Orleans. 

 I have since received a receipt for the 

 same from Mr. Jos. Barabino, dated 

 N. O. January 15th, enclosed in a 

 letter from my friend Vose, who tells 

 me that Mr. B. will pay every necessary 

 attention in forwarding the collection 

 safely to you ; & I therefore presume 

 that you must, long before this, have 

 received it. As it is possible that my 

 letter may not have reached you I shall 

 repeat, what I therein stated, that a 

 succession of domestic afflictions pre- 

 vented me from complying with my 

 promise to you until November last, 

 but that my love for Entomology still 

 remains, & with it an increased desire 

 to obtain your kind assistance in deter- 

 mining many of the insects sent to you. 

 Of the collection (consisting in all of 

 1970 specimens, or about 1S00 species,) 



1202 insects are for yourself; the re- 

 mainder, being uniques from my cab- 

 inet, you will please to return as soon 

 after examining them as you can. 1 hope 

 you will let the numbers remain attached 

 to all of these insects for the present, 

 even to those which are for yourself; & 

 I must beg you, in particular, to keep 

 the uniques in the boxes in which they 

 are sent during the time you may find 

 it necessary to retain them. Red 

 tickets are attached to a number of 

 insects, which were presented to me 

 by Mr. J. W. Randall, (a student in 

 the University, who has a good collec- 

 tion of native insects of this vicinity,) 

 & who is desirous of describing them if 

 new. In the Mss catalogue I have 

 endeavoured to give the specific names 

 of the first describers, whenever known 

 to me, notwithstanding that they might 

 be less commonly received than other 

 names. The same has been done in 

 the printed catalogue, made out about 

 two years ago for Prof. Hitchcock. iV. 

 printed last autumn almost without 

 alteration or correction. This brings 

 me to the present object of my letter, 

 which is to solicit your immediate at- 



