128 WOODVILLE : ITS PETS AND ITS PURSUITS, 



TO SIE W. JARDINE, BART. 



" Woodville, 2Sth April 1829. 



" Dear Sir William, — I bad yesterday afternoon the 

 pleasure to receive your letter of the 24th, accompanied 

 by a small box of insects, for both of which I am much 

 obliged. Since I saw you I have twice been laid up with 

 a bad sore throat and cold, and have not ventured from 

 home except on one occasion, when I joined the Scottish 

 Academicians at their late feed in Waterloo Place. I was 

 not much the better of that excursion, though I had the 

 satisfaction to meet Mr Selby and others, whom I don't 

 incline to miss. 



" In regard to Lophophorus Nigelli, I have never even 

 seen it since it was stuffed, having scarcely been in the 

 Museum this year. Indeed, it is certainly not there; but 

 I shall find it out the very first day that I have it in my 

 power to leave home, and shall immediately make up 

 some notes upon it, which you will be so good as alter 

 and amend, or put into any form you think proper. I 

 had the subject in view some months ago, and went into 

 town to see what could be picked uj) concerning the 

 genus in general, in one of the Dictionaries of Natural 

 History; but all I got for my pains was the following- 

 useful information : ' Lophophore — Voyez Monaul ; ' and 



