LETTER II 



Reviews and Notices of Former Letters Black-headed Gulls 

 Error in Description Japanese Gardens Flower Arrangement 

 Kindness to Flowers Line Arrangement Suicides and 

 Accidental Drowning. 



12th February, 1894. 



DEAR MARCO I think I may congratulate 

 myself on the kind and favourable character 

 of the notices that my letters received in the 

 papers and reviews. Through the courtesy 

 of my publishers, I believe I must have seen 

 all that appeared, and I am glad to say 

 there were only two which were in any sense 

 adverse. The writers of these hostile notices 

 fell foul of the superficiality of my know- 

 ledge of natural history, both pointing out as 

 an example of this superficiality, the blunder I 



