606 APPENDIX. 



Barham, June 14, 1847. 



" My Dear Friend, I must begin by thanking you for another supply of 

 excellent ginger, which arrived on Friday. I find it a very good stomachic ; 

 and I must likewise thank you for your interesting and amusing note. 



" I should like to have been at your elbow at the meeting where Sir R. Peel 

 was present. You made a handsome collection. 



** I hope Mr. Patterson's work * will succeed, as it was much wanted, and is 

 well executed. I have lent my copy to Sir W. Middleton, who will show it to 

 his friends. I was asked by a friend of his, if I was not going to publish a new 

 edition of my Bridgewater Treatise, as he inquired for a copy and could not 

 procure one in town. I shall consult my friends about it. What is your opinion ? 



" I was sorry Professor Owen has been suffering from dissecting poor Jack 

 the elephant in the Zoological Gardens, of whose death I read this morning. 



" My movements have not been far from my own house of late, but I do 

 think I shall go with Miss Rodwell, her sister, and Mrs. Kedington, to the sea 

 coast for a few nights j we probably shall select LowestofFe, or rather Felixstow, 

 for our station, but we have not yet positively determined. I shall give you 

 a line on our arrival at the coast ; I don't expect our stay will exceed a few 

 nights. I wish you and Mrs. S. could meet us there. I don't know whether you 

 have any thoughts of attending the great meeting at Cambridge, for the election 

 of a Chancellor ; had I a vote I should be happy to give it to Prince Albert. 



" I heard you had been drinking tea lately with my poor dear Charlotte's 

 brother, George Rodwell ; when you see him again give my love to him. Pray 

 remember me kindly to all my scientific friends who do me the honour to 

 enquire for me " 



" Barham, October 4th, 1848. 



" My dear Friend, Thanks for your kind note, which arrived on my birth- 

 day, September 19th. Pray what is your birthday ? 



" I was amused with the portrait of Miss Silpha, and the verses that accom- 

 panied it. I have been much troubled by a painful attack of neuralgia in my 

 left breast, which must be my apology for this short note ; when it has left me 

 I will send you a longer " 



"Barham, March 15, 1849. 



"My Dear Friend, I have received from Mr. Ransome the parcel contain- 

 ing copies of your address to the Entomological Society, and distributed them 

 as directed. I heard it read, and liked it very much, and heartily wish your 

 efforts, and those of our friends, may be crowned with the success that they 

 merit, and that our number of members may be increased. 



" I have been troubled by an attack of Neuralgia pectoris, which disables me 

 from writing much, which must be my apology for my brevity. 



" Miss Rodwell desires her kind regards to yourself and Mrs. Spence, &c. &c. 



** I am, my Dear Friend, 



" Yours affectionately, 



" WM. KIRBY." 



One of the last notes I had from Mr. Kirby, of only a few lines, and 

 written in a tremulous hand, was in answer to a letter enclosing the pro- 

 spectus of the " Insecta Britannica," proposed to be published under the 

 auspices of the Entomological Society, for which we were desirous of 

 having his sanction as its venerated Honorary President. This he gave 

 emphatically, desiring that his name should be added to our list of sub- 

 scribers, and expressing his strong wishes for the success of the plan, 



* " Introduction to Zoology, for the use of Schools." 



