MR. EDWARD HOBSON. . 313 
nate as to possess copies of the work, and make 
us the more regret that Hobson had not leisure 
to complete the third volume here alluded to— 
we find him however a few years afterwards very 
busily engaged in the pursuit of Entomology, and 
Dr. Hooker, after observing he had long been in 
“his debt, informs Hobson on the 1st of February, 
1825, that having given up Entomology for ten 
years, he regrets he is unable to render him 
any assistance in that pursuit. 
Jethro Tinker, a correspondent of Hobson’s, 
residing at Staley Bridge, in the preceding year 
had furnished him with the names of the insects 
found in that neighbourhood, and requests he will 
pay particular attention ‘to the circumstance of 
the very few butterflies which are there to be met 
with.” 
From Hobson’s correspondence with Mr. 
Robertson of Newcastle, Cayley, and others, it is 
quite clear that his attachment to botany had not 
been impaired by these additional pursuits. In 
a very long and most interesting letter from Cay- 
ley, dated Bayswater, 5th of February, 1826, 
he asks Hobson “if he had ever made a list of the 
plants growing in the neighbourhood of Manches- 
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