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weeks in a wearisome manner, partly idleness, and odds and 

 ends, and sending ten thousand Barnacles* out of the house all 

 over the world. But I shall now in a day or two begin to look 

 over my old notes on species. What a deal I shall have to 

 discuss with you; I shall have to look sharp that I do not 

 progress ' into one of the greatest bores in life, to the few like 

 yoa with lots of knowledge." 



* The duplicate type-specimens of my father's Cirripedes are in the 

 Liverpool Free Public Museum, as I learn from the Rev. H. H. Higgins. 



