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the way of collecting specimens of the young of 

 crabs, etc. Your species of Stenothoe clypeatus is new 

 to Britain." 



During the next few months Edward was in con- 

 stant communication with Mr. Bate and Mr. Norman, 

 who named for him an immense number of Crustacea. 

 Many of them were new to Britain ; some of them 

 were new to science. On March 6th Mr. Bate writes : 

 " The little fellow was a Pettidium purpureum. The 

 long-legged Mysis are handsome chaps. The second 

 is, I think, (Ediceros sasignatus : if so, it is the first 

 taken in Britain." Again, shortly after, Mr. Bate 

 asks, " Do you recollect a little fellow just like this ? 

 [giving a diagram]. I never saw the like of it before. 

 Where did you get it? Do get me more! Is it a 

 wood-borer? I am afraid that you. will scold me 

 when I tell you that I have not yet examined the 

 green bottle which you sent me previously. I am 

 just in the midst of describing a number of Crustacea 

 put into my hands, belonging to the Boundary Com- 

 mission between America and British Columbia. 

 When I finish this work I will write to you again." 



A few days later Mr. Bate examines the green 

 bottle, and writes a letter to Edward, in which he 

 gives him the names of seventeen Crustacea which it 

 contained. Mr. Bate was as voracious for further 

 discoveries, as Edward himself was. In a letter 

 of 10th December 1863, after giving an account 

 of the various works on which he was engaged, he 



