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Your letter came a few minutes after Professor Fream's 

 arrival, and we said nothing about the lectures on Ento- 

 mology in Edinburgh, but I told him how affairs were 

 standing about the Board of Agriculture, and that I had 

 recommended Professor Marker in case an entomologist 

 was wanted. He was very pleasant. I have known him so 

 long I always like a talk with him, and amongst other 

 points we went over some special work about students' 

 entomological examinations, and he left the impression on 

 my mind that he would convey the requisite kind of infor- 

 mation for your proposed lectures very satisfactorily to the 

 hearers. 



February 14, 1890. 



Some time ago, before I knew that your University 

 Entomological Lectureship [Steven course] was in a sort 

 of way private, I mentioned something about it to Mr. 

 James Fletcher (Dominion entomologist), and he is de- 

 lighted with the hoped-for advance. He says how very 

 much, if circumstances had allowed, he should have liked 

 to give the course. You would, indeed, have had " a 

 feather in your cap " if you could have secured him. 



What a sad loss we all have in Professor Little. 



April 1 8, 1890. 



I return your two lists marked. * What you want is a set 

 of cases with models and figures such as Mr. Mosley arranged 

 for Kew. I told him he ought not to sell at as low a rate 

 as he at first proposed, but I think that if strong card boxes 

 were substituted for the nicely-finished mahogany ones, 

 he could certainly let you have the cases at 73. 6d. If you 

 do not wish to open the cases (excepting for very special 

 work), the board on which the exhibits are fixed might be 

 fastened from below, and thus the cost of the beautiful work 

 of one half sliding perfectly into the other half of the box 

 saved. 



July 21, 1890. 



I was lately down for a few days at Oxford, and took the 

 opportunity of asking Professor Westwood whether, if you 

 arranged to have a course of entomological lectures, and 

 asked him to deliver them, there was any chance of his 

 granting such a favour ? I thought it was too much to 

 hope for, but I gained his permission that you might write 

 to him on the subject, and I really think that if it were so 



1 Of Mosley's Insect cases with a view to suiting the Agriculture 

 Department, Edinburgh University. 



