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me. If you now, or at any future time, should be 

 able to favour me with specimens of any of them, I 

 shall be extremely obliged." The specimens were 

 afterwards sent to Mr. Norman. 



On the 6th of February 1864 Mr. Bate wrote to 

 Edward : " You will be glad to learn that your little 

 specimen is Opis EssicJitii, and that it has not been 

 found previously in Britain. I have reconsidered the 

 little Hyperia, and think that you are right ; your re- 

 marks convince me that my first opinion was the 

 more correct. You will therefore call it Hyperia 

 Medusarum" 



Mr. Bate was then publishing in parts his work 

 on The Sessile-eyed Crustacea. He sent Edward 

 the several parts as they appeared. About the be- 

 ginning of 1855 Mr. Bate says : " You will soon get 

 a new part of Crustacea, and then you will find that 

 all my time and attention has been occupied with 

 the Isopods. So do try and look out for some of 

 these, and leave the Amphipods alone for a little 

 while." 



And again : " Please never apologise for writing 

 to me about Natural History We have now been 

 such long correspondents, that unless I hear from you 

 now and then, I begin to fancy myself forgotten. 

 Your letters always give me pleasure. The crustacean 

 that you speak of is a Vibilia, the first taken in the 

 British Islands. Please let me know its habitat, and 

 as much of its habits as you can." 



