TO A. HANCOCK, ESQ. 271 



too long to tell in this note, and perhaps all a blunder, but I am 

 dreadfully perplexed. 



'Now for apologies. Can you forgive me when I tell you that 

 I have cut up all the specimens you lent me? I fear I have 

 been unreasonable, but I have trusted to the extreme kindness 

 you have shown me in all your correspondence. "Will you for- 

 give me ? 



Yours very truly, 



In haste, 



C. Dabwin. 



No. 15. 

 (No postal date.) 



Down Farnborough, Kent, 



Feb. 10th. 

 My dear Sir, 



I trouble you with one line to say that amongst the 



few remaining and on the cut up and previously (imperfectly as 



it turns out) examined specimens I have found plenty of male 



Alcippes, indeed hardly any without some, so that I am in no 



want of more specimens at present. I should, however, be very 



glad to have hereafter some few to distribute in a dry state on 



the Continent, when I return the specimens in my possession ; 



and indeed I should like a few more to examine the form of 



cavity, though I fancy I have made out this pretty well. Tou 



may imagine how peculiar the appearance of the male Alcippe is 



when I mention that, though having had experience how diverse 



an aspect the males put on, I now know that I looked at a male 



during the first day or two, and never dreamed it was a Cirri- 



pede ! I suppose after all you have done in the anatomy of the 



MoUusca no structure seems very difiicult to you to make out, 



but I have found Alcippe one of the most difficult creatures I 



have ever attempted to make out. 



Yours very truly, 



C. Paewin, 



