228 COLLECTIONS AT GLANVFLI.KS WOOTTON HOUSE. 



the only specimen that has ever been taken in England, and 

 there are only six others known in Europe. 



I possess all the British species of Dragon flies and ants ; and 

 fifty drawers of beetles, some of them containing more than a 

 thousand species. The other drawers contain bees, wasps, saw 

 flic's, caddis flies, scorpion flies, snake flies, earwigs, crickets, 

 locusts, grasshoppers, ichneumon flies, gnats, daddy long-legs, 

 midges, frog-hoppers, blight insects, &c. 



Since my father died in 1872, I have added 1,950 species. In 

 the whole collection 4,564 species have been taken in Glanvilles 

 Wootton alone. Besides the " History of Glanvilles Wootton," 

 I have written the " Lepidoptera of Dorset " and " British 

 Butterflies." 



