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when in error; and this I wish to do. In our ‘Introduction’ we should cer- 
tainly recommend ‘Ent, Brit.’ to all Entomological students as the first. sys- 
tematical work that ever appeared in this country. I think it will be highly 
necessary that you and I should meet this year to settle termini, I hope you 
will be able to come here for a month or two, and then all points could be much 
better settled and discussed than they could by letter. If you could come be- 
tween Easter and Midsummer I should be highly gratified.” 
Agreeably to Mr. Kirby’s invitation I transferred myself to Barham 
in the summer of 1809, and for several weeks we were hard at work 
laying the foundations of our book, which conceiving to be the Letters 
on External Anatomy and Orismology, it was to these we first directed 
our attention, and before I left Barham we had drawn out a general 
sketch of the whole, founded on the examination of Mr. Kirby’s insects, 
and discussions, often very long, as to the propriety of various terms. 
We had no leisure time for excursions, but as a short one we made 
one day led to a ludicrous adventure, which Mr. Kirby used often to 
refer to, and relate with great zest to his entomological visitors, its his- 
tory may be here given. Mr. (now Sir William J.) Hooker was at 
that time staying at Barham, and being desirous to have pointed out to 
him, and to gather with his own hands, the rare Targionia hypophylla, 
from its habitat, first discovered by Mr. Kirby, near Nayland, some miles 
distant, it was agreed we three should walk thither, entomologising by 
the way, and after dinner proceed to the hedge-bank where it grew. 
Entering the head inn yard on foot, with dusty shoes, and without other 
baggage than our insect nets in our hands, we met with but a cool recep- 
tion, which, however, visibly warmed as soon as we had desired to be 
shown into the best dining-room, and had ordered a good dinner and 
wine. We intended.to walk back in the evening, but as the bank where 
the Targionia grew was a mile or two out of the direct road, and it 
came on to rain, we ordered out a post-chaise, merely saying we wanted 
a drive a short way ona road which Mr. Kirby indicated to the posti- 
ion. 
When we arrived at the gate of the field where the bank was, the rain 
had become very heavy: so, calling to the postilion to stop and open the 
door, we scampered out of the chaise, all laughing, and hastily telling 
him to wait there, without other explanation we climbed over the gate, 
and not to be long in the rain, set off running as fast as we could along 
the field-side of the hedge, to the bank we were looking for. We saw 
amazement in the face of our postilion at what possible motive could 
have made three guests of his master clamber pell-mell over a gate into a 
field that led nowhere, in the midst of a heavy shower of rain, and then 
run away as if pursued: and it was the expression in his countenance 
which caused our mirth, which was increased to peals of merriment when 
we saw that instead of waiting for us at the gate, as we had directed, he. 
mounted his horses with all speed, and pushed on in a gallop along the 
road on the other side of the hedge, evidently to circumvent our nefarious 
plan (as he conceived) of bilking his master both of our dinners and the 
chaise-hire. When the cessation of our uncontrollable mirth had allowed 
us to gather specimens of our plant, perceiving through the hedge where- 
abouts we stopped, he also halted to watch our motions, and when he saw 
us run back, he obeyed our orders to return to the gate,—where we got 
