LETTER OF FEBRUARY 16TH, 1860. 31 



studies most kindly, and will supply me with a suite of 

 specimens, which will be received from agents in Europe in 

 a few months, including all the European genera. When 

 I receive these the work will be easier and more certain. 



I was very sorry to hear my box of cocoonets disappointed 

 you in not producing specimens. And I thought I was careful 

 to designate Robiniella and Vitigenella as those which would 

 appear in the fall. The specimens of Aspidisca, which will 

 be most interesting to you, will appear notwithstanding they 

 are kept in a warmed room; at least, the only specimens 

 I have appeared last spring under these circumstances. 



I have not seen the " Intelligencer" since December 3rd, 

 and cannot imagine why it is delayed. Could I not make 

 arrangements at the publishing office, after subscribing 

 through Bailliere, to have it sent me directly? 



Your use of my remarks on species* in the Synopsis was a 

 most unlooked-for compliment and a most pleasant recogni- 

 tion of the views advocated, which a perusal of Darwin has 

 not disturbed. 



I am writing in much haste .... 



VIII. 



EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA, UNITED STATES, 

 June 23rd, 1860. 



ENCLOSED in my fourth paper, on American Tineina, 

 which I send by the present post, I have taken the liberty of 

 sending a photograph of myself for which I sat a few months 

 ago. May I beg you to receive it as a token of my esteem 

 and friendship, sent to you in the hope that it may dissipate to 

 a certain extent that sense of vagueness, which must be con- 

 nected with my personalty whenever I may be recalled to 

 your mind ? Need I say how much I should be pleased to 

 possess a like memorial of yourself, to hang amongst those of 

 other friends in my study. If you can send me one without 



Quoted in the "Entomologist's Annual" for 1860, pp. 156168. H. T. S. 



