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righteously & unconstitutionally waging against these poor 

 wretches whom we call savages, our voyage of discovery was 

 rendered abortive as we were not in Florida at the season we 

 wished, the Spring, we therefore obtained but very few Insects 

 & these few of but little consequence — My discoveries were 

 principally in the Crustacea--— 



The other day I sent you the May number of our Journal — 

 that of December you may expect to receive about the same 

 time with this letter — Another number will be out in a few 

 days which I will then send to you — please let me know if 

 you have all the numbers complete & all the plates, if your 

 series should not be perfect I will make it up — 



I have put up for you a few Insets, two or three species of 

 East India Fishes, & some Crustacea, but I much fear that 

 they will not be new to you — 



In Vol. I. New Series of the American Philosophical Trans- 

 actions I have published "A Monograph of North American 

 Insects of the Genus Cincindela' ' with a plate, this paper was 

 given to that society on condition of their giving me a few 

 separate copies of it ; not a single separate copy however has 

 been given me, this I am more especially sorry for, as I wished 

 to have sent one to you, for your remarks upon it — 



I remain respectfully 

 Your Ob^ Serv^ 



Thomas Say 

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A Successful Failure. 



By Annie Trumbull Slosson. 



(Continued from page 203.) 



On this attractive shrub I took, also, a few specimens of 

 a pretty little Scytnnus, a variety of S. bigemneus Horn. This 

 form was figured by Dr. Horn, having been taken by Hubbard 

 and Schwarz in Florida some yeary ago. 



But not all my discoveries were associated with the Trema. 

 One day in January, when windy, wet weather kept me 

 indoors, I saw upon my window an odd little beetle and 

 bottled it. On examination it proved to be a Rhynchophorid, 

 quite unlike anything I had ever seen, nor could I find any 



