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wished to write a small paper in their ' Transactions,' but I dare not 

 trust my English, and I have no friend now to mend it. England, — 

 the collections of Messrs. Banks, Drury, Hunter, &c, &c, — were the 

 cradle of my system, and now the English blame the author. Health 

 and happiness attend you ! 



" I am, constantly yours, 



" J. Fabricius." 



Afzelius to Kirby. 



" Upsala, 8th July, 1803. 



" My Dear Sir, — A fortnight ago I received from our friend Mr. 

 Marsham your ' Monographia Apum Angliae,' which he says he had 

 an order to send as a present from you. For this mark of attention, 

 and for the honour you have done me by calling an insect by my 

 name, as well as by mentioning me in several places in a manner that 

 cannot fail to be very flattering to me, I return you my sincerest and 

 warmest thanks, wishing that I may be able some time or other to 

 show you my acknowledgment more effectually. The work I have 

 but hastily gone through, waiting for more leisure to study it as it 

 deserves. But thus much I can say, that I am highly pleased with 

 the plan you have followed, the pains you have taken, the discoveries 

 you have made, and the manner in which you have treated Mr. Fa- 

 bricius his tottering system and disorderly arrangement. And it is 

 my hearty wish that your time and health would allow you to under- 

 take another genus, and work it out upon the same admirable plan. 

 Last year I took the liberty of introducing to your acquaintance my 

 worthy friend, Major Gyllenhal. He is the best entomologist we 

 have in Sweden ; and, on the hint I have given him, he wishes to 

 come in correspondence with you. . . If I can be of any service to 

 you in this country, you have only to command, and it will give me 

 the greatest pleasure to be able to perform your wishes. 



" If your good lady remembers a foreigner who never forgets th< 

 hospitable reception he enjoyed in Barham, in the autumn of 1798, 

 I beg you will give her my best compliments ; and as to yourself, b( 

 assured, that wishing you health and happiness, 



" I remain, Dear Sir, 

 " Unalterably your obliged friend and servant, 



" Ad. Afzelius." 



The following letter, also from Afzelius, shows the progress mad< 

 by the 'Monographia' in the estimation of Continental entomologists, 

 during the two years intervening between the dates of the epistles. 



