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and he urged me to A. oft to Chateaudun, where he would 
meet me and conduct me to his country residence. The pro- 
longation of the journey—six hours instead of two—appeared 
trivial in his eyes. ‘‘ What matters an additional thirty or forty 
miles when you are once on the road?” was his question, but 
when the additional distance to be travelled is in a diligence and 
not by railway, we are apt in these days to look upon it as a 
more serious matter. 
He pressed me to come and stop a few days with him, and 
thus it happened that in April, 1857, I remained, from Monday, 
April 20th, to Wednesday, April 22nd, his guest at his residence, 
‘Les Chatelliers,” near Chateaudun. 
The house was situated in a little wood, and from the front 
of the house a series of perfectly straight alleys, which had been 
cut amongst the trees, branched off in a dozen different directions. 
A small open space immediately before the house was gay with 
Genista sagittalis and other plants strange to my eyes. 
We found much to talk over, and there were many points on 
which he was anxious to compare notes. He was never tired of 
asking me about his correspondent Henry Doubleday, who had 
proved so valuable a friend to him, having repeatedly exerted 
himself to procure for him many species that he had particularly 
desired to see. Wetook a turn in the wood near the house, and 
he showed me how, by picking up a mass of dead leaves, placing 
them in an inverted umbrella and turning them over, it was 
comparatively easy to find the larva of Pachetra lewcophea and 
other species, which were usually rare unless sought for in 
that way. There is no doubt that entomologists of different 
countries might learn a great deal from each other, even in the 
simple matter of practical collecting, by mixing more together 
than they do. 
Of Guenée’s readiness to assist me, in every possible way, I 
had abundant proof, and I can repeat the words of Monsieur 
Paul Mabille, ‘‘ Guenée était d'une complaisance sans bornes; il 
ne ménageait point sa peine . . . .” But, notwithstanding 
my visit to Chateaudun, | found I was unable to accomplish the 
special object I had so much at heart—the earlier appearance of 
the first number of the second volume of the ‘Manual’; and 
there was an interval of precisely twelve months between the 
close of vol. i. and the commencement of vol. ii. The pilgrimage, 
