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for gulls, but they seem to know exactly the 

 range of the gun, and pues nada. I have an 

 aunt, Lady Holland, living here in a most 

 charming house ; she is most hospitable, we go 

 there to-night to dine and sleep. . . . Come out 

 as soon as you can, you may as well see a new 

 country as go to Gib, and I sadly want a pal. 



* Yours ever, 



To Albert Giinther. 



' Lilford : August 24, 1874. 



* I was very sorry not to be able to go on with 

 you at the bats and lizards, but though I am 

 an idle man, my time was so fully taken up by a 

 thousand little things in London, that I found 

 it useless to attempt giving two or three hours 

 to the beasts in pickle. . . . 



' I sent a young Felis pardina 1 for the 

 British Museum, addressed thither, to you 

 some days ago. It arrived alive, very tame 

 and in good health, but died in convulsions 

 about four days after its arrival.' 



1 Spanish lynx. 



