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work I make myself content with the small one, and shall be 

 happy to receive the continuation — pray tell me to whom shall 

 I make payment for them, shall it be to M""- Phillips if so, let 

 me or him know, and it shall be done immediately — I am quite 

 of your opinion that there would be some sale for it here — if 

 it was advertised and made known, but a commission of 10. 

 p cent will not tempt any London Bookseller who is sufficiently 

 known and influential to be of any service to you — I exhibited 

 my numbers at the meetings of the Linnean and Zoological 

 Socities and gave the loose plates between them to lay on the 

 table, but without the name of a London Bookseller on the 

 cover no one knows where to get the work if Desirous of buy- 

 ing it. 



I will now answer your inquiries for English Friends. Earl 

 Derby remains much the same — very well in health, but de- 

 prived of the use of one side entirely, limbs as well as body — 

 unable to attend to other things, he appears to devote him- 

 self almost entirely to Zoology — Thomson his Superintendent 

 of the Aviary is at this time in London buying some new or rare 

 pheasants lately arrived here from China — and will have a 

 valuable addition to the stock to take back with him — Lord 

 Derby came to London by the Rail Road last March (1840) 

 and Thomson tells me, his Lordship means to come up again 

 this Spring. The Prince of Musignano now P. of Canino I 

 hear of by report from others — He is quite well, continually 

 publishing, and we hear that he means to visit London in the 

 course of the present year — of M''- Lear we hear the most 

 satisfactory accounts — generally through M*"- HuUmandill — he 

 is greatly improved in health and finances — a favorite with 

 every body, patronized by all who go there- — and he too, we 

 hear, means to visit England in the course of the present year. 

 M''- Gould returned safe to England in August last, after an 

 absence of two years and 8 months — Two years of the time were 

 passed on Van Diemans land and various parts of New Holland 

 ■ — he did not go to New Zealand — He has brought home a very 

 large collection of Birds, with, in many cases, the eggs and 

 nests — He has commenced the publication of the Birds on the 



