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kindly sent me an outline tracing. Seenstrup sent me one speci- 

 men, which I dissected, after comparing it externally with the 

 drawings, and now I am most anxious for Mr. Gr. B. Sowerby to 

 copy two of the figures for my volume for the E,ay Society, for 

 which the plates are now engraving. I do not know whether 

 there is a copy in the British Museum, and if there be, it would 

 be very troublesome to obtain permission to have a copy made, 

 and such would not be so accurate as if Mr. Sowerby could have 

 the plate at his own house. I have charged him, in case Mr. 

 Alder would confer this favour on me, to take the greatest care 

 of it, to acknowledge its receipt, and to pay its return carriage, 

 and not keep it long. Mr. S.'s address is 

 29, Albert St., 



New Camden Town, 



London. 

 Now that I am in the way of begging favours, I will ask con- 

 ditionally another. You once sent me a spirited sketch of an 

 Ibla from Australia. Have you more than one or two specimens. 

 I have the greatest wish to possess the very base of the peduncle 

 still attached to whatever it adheres, especially if the surface be 

 smooth. It is too long a story to tell why, but hereafter, if 

 you look at my monograph, you will admit the importance of 

 the point. 



Pray forgive my giving you all this trouble. I see that you 

 continue always hard at work. I have lately been reading with 

 great interest your papers in the Annals on the Bryozoa. 



Believe me, yours sincerely, 



C. Daewin'. 



P.S. Will you forgive my sending so untidy a note, but writ- 

 ing the above reminded me that some time since I purchased 

 four specimens, which until this minute I unaccountably have 



