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contemplate sending it (at my own cost) in charge of an 

 expert who could repair damage. I shall wait your reply 

 with great interest. 



April 1 6, 1896. 



Indeed, I thank you heartily for your kind letter of the 

 1 3th. It is a very great pleasure both to my sister and 

 myself that you think our collection likely to be of use. 

 I thought perhaps you had started on your long tour, so I 

 wrote to Dr. Taylor, and yesterday we had a letter from him 

 which pleased us exceedingly, with the kindly expressed 

 acceptance of the University Court ; and Sir W. Muir also 

 was good enough to write, which we took to be very kind 

 of him. I shall hope now, all being well, to collect, and 

 (with permission) add as occasion allows. You would 

 notice that some of the great attacks, Tipula (Daddy long- 

 legs), leather-jacket grubs, for instance, and Charccas gra- 

 minis (Antler moth), were not represented, for they were 

 not about in the winter, but I shall hope to go on now. I 

 should like you to see the cases, and we should much like 

 a chat before you go ; it is long since we met, and as the 

 collection will not be free to go down till a little after the 

 beginning of June, I suppose you will be far away then ? 

 I do not know the difference between the University Court 

 and the Senatus. Very ridiculous you will think this ; but 

 I should like to understand about it. 



May 30, 1896. 



Many thanks for your letter received this afternoon, with 

 address of Sir Robert Murdoch Smith [the curator]. From 

 this I understand that the collection is to be placed in the 

 " Museum of Science and Art," Chambers Street, as the pro- 

 perty of the University Court of Edinburgh University ? 

 You will think me tedious, but I was under an impression 

 that there was a " University Museum " pur et simple. I 

 should not be easy at all in sending the exhibit down ex- 

 cepting in skilled hands. I had the great pleasure yesterday 

 of showing them to the Prince and Princess (p. 123), and 

 to-day I hear there is such a crowd that even our own 

 people could only get a sight of two cases. 



October 22, 1896. 



I was very much pleased to see this morning that you had 

 returned safe from your long journey to Australia, and I 

 hope that besides the immense quantity of useful work 

 which I make no doubt you have done, that you have come 

 back in better health. You will have heard that my dear 



