172 i "A Mil RIDGE. ^TAT. I -22. [1828. 



intercourse ; but a warm feeling of friendship remained. The 

 correspondence was never quite dropped and continued till 

 Mr. Fox's death in 1880. Mr. Fox took orders, and worked 

 as a country clergyman until forced by ill-health to leave 

 his living in Delamcre Forest. His love of natural history 

 remained strong, and he became a skilled fancier of many 

 kinds of birds, &c. The index to ' Animals and Plants,' and 

 my father's later correspondence, show how much help he 

 received from his old College friend.] 



C. Darwin to J. M. Herbert. 



Saturday Evening 



[September 14, 1828].* 



MY DEAR OLD CHERBURY, 



I am about to fulfil my promise of writing to you, 

 but I am sorry to add there is a very selfish motive at the 

 bottom. I am going to ask you a great favour, and you 

 cannot imagine how much you will oblige me by procuring 

 some more specimens of some insects which I dare say I can 

 describe. In the first place, I must inform you that I have 

 taken some of the rarest of the British Insects, and their being 

 found near Barmouth, is quite unknown to the Entomological 

 world : I think I shall write and inform some of the crack 

 entomologists. 



But now for business. Several more specimens, if you 

 can procure them without much trouble, of the following 

 insects : The violet-black coloured beetle, found on Craig 

 Storm, t under stones, also a large smooth black one very 

 like it ; a bluish metallic-coloured dung-beetle, which is very 

 common on the hill-sides ; also, if you -would be so very kind 

 as to cross the ferry, and you will find a great number under 



* The postmark being Derby f The top of the hill immediately 

 seems to show that the letter was behind Barmouth was called Craig- 

 written from his cousin, W. D. Storm, a hybrid Cambro-English 

 Fox's house, Osmaston, near word. 

 Derby. 



