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then, 'Monaul — Voyez Lophophore/ which is not parti- 

 cularly explicit 



" If you wish to draw one or two of the females of the 

 new grouse you saw with me, arrange your plans so as 

 to pass some days here in the course of the summer, and 

 whatever accommodation this humble roof affords, will 

 be at your service. I suppose 1 ought to write to Mr 

 Sabine in the first place, to ask his leave before altering 

 their destination. I have a good deal on hand of other 

 kind of matters, and I don't think I will have time or 

 patience to draw the females of such as greatly resemble 

 their males. 



' : I wish you would furnish me with the names of any 

 of the recent works on natural history, systematic or 

 otherwise, which you think would aid me in the forma- 

 tion of the encychyppedia articles which I have undertaken 

 to contribute to the new edition of the ' Britannica.' If 

 you have any notes of species which you would like to 

 see entered in that work, I shall be glad to receive them, 

 and acknowledge publicly the source from which they are 

 derived. The manaoement and control of the whole 

 zoological department have been offered to me, and upon 

 very liberal terms ; and although there are many depart- 

 ments which I am quite incompetent to work at, yet I 

 have nearly agreed to engage for the whole, with the view 

 of receiving assistance from others, whom I shall remu- 



