BRITISH BUTTERFLIES AND MOTHS in 



moths ; of one in particular there was but a single 

 specimen in all England, and this, naturally, the 

 owner did not like to part with. Many attempts 

 were made to have a copy taken, but they all proved 

 fruitless. After this, again, the printer was changed 

 more than once, and endless trouble arose on that 

 head ; but when it came to the third volume the 

 difficulties increased manifold, and this is what the 

 author himself said of them in his preface to that 

 volume : 



" I have only to say again to my readers in 

 explanation of the delays that have taken place in 

 the bringing out several of the parts of this work 

 in fact, latterly, ever since I have had to describe 

 and figure the small moths that if they will read 

 the preface to the second volume, with the account 

 of the difficulties therein recorded as having occurred 

 up to that time, and will then multiply them by 

 ten, and that ten by ten again, they will then 

 possibly be able to imagine a tenth part of those 

 which have come in my way since." 



Nevertheless the work was persevered with, and 

 carried through to the very last letter. 



