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the insects are, even in the close neighbourhood of the two 

 Australian Capitals. 



Floreat Entomologia 



Yours most truly 

 Wednesday. CHAS. DARWIN. l 



The last words of Darwin's letter are surely 

 a most fitting conclusion to this Anniversary 

 address, and I conclude by quoting his humorous 

 repetition of them probably twenty years later. 



' " Floreat Entomologia " ! to which toast at Cambridge 

 I have drunk many a glass of wine. So again, " Floreat 

 Entomologia." N.B. I have not now been drinking any 

 glasses full of wine.' * 



CONCLUSIONS 



It will probably be convenient to sum up 

 rather fully the chief conclusions contained in 

 the foregoing address. 



1. The study of Mimicry possesses special ad- 

 vantages for an understanding of the history and 

 causes of evolution. 



1 The letter is addressed : ' The Revd. F. W. Hope, 56, Upper 

 Seymour Street' At the head Mr. Hope had written ' D ', and the 

 date '1837'. The red-stamped post-mark gives the date 'Ju. 22, 

 1837*. Darwin's own address (36, Great Marlborough Street) 

 does not appear. At the date of the letter the Entomological 

 Society of London possessed a large collection of insects, long 

 since dispersed. Darwin knew Mr. Hope before the Voyage, and 

 speaks in letters to W. D. Fox (1829-30) of his splendid collection 

 and of his generosity with specimens. He also went for an ento- 

 mological trip in North Wales with Hope (June, 1829), unfortunately 

 broken short for Darwin by ill health. See Life and Letters, i. 

 174, 175, 178, 181. G. R. Waterhouse and Francis Walker, 

 referred to in the letter, were both on the staff of the British 

 Museum. 



* To Sir John Lubbock (Lord Avebury), some date before 1857. 

 Life and Letters, ii. 141. 



