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into the chaise, still in a roar of laughter at the whole affair, and at his 
awkward attempt to explain away his not having waited for us there, as 
we had directed, and evident high satisfaction at bringing back in triumph 
to our inn the three cheats whose intended plans he had so cleverly frus- 
trated, as he no doubt told his master ; to whom, being too much amused 
with the adventure, we did not make any explanation, but left it to form 
one of the traditions of the inn. 
To return to our book: we had found the various investigations re- 
quired, so much more numerous and difficult than we had calculated on, 
that at the time of our separation in consequence of other engagements, 
we had not done anything towards the preliminary and popular portion, 
not having even definitely fixed what particular letters each should take ; 
and though we had drawn up a provisional table of all the anatomical and 
orismological terms which the science seemed to demand, theré were 
many of these still requiring further discussion before they could be 
finally adopted. To these discussions, the thirty-seven letters we ex- 
changed during the years 1809 and 1810 were mainly devoted, and of 
these I shall give two of the earliest, to serve, as in the former instance 
of our first Entomological correspondence, as a specimen of our way of 
carrying on these investigations, and to show that we spared no labour 
either of mind or pen to attain accurate notions on the subject. Of the 
remaining letters (upwards of 100) which passed between us between 
1809 and 1815, when the first volume of the work appeared, a great 
portion of which was occupied with similar discussions, and with contri- 
butions by each to the “ Letters” of the other, I shall as before quote 
only such detached passages, from a very few, as may be likely to interest 
the entomologist and general reader, 
“Drypool, Noy. 20, 1809. 
“My dear Sir,—I have been long very impatient for the pleasure of 
hearing from you, and but that for the last month we have been up to the 
ears in brick and mortar, during which my time was fully oceupied with look- 
ing after the workmen, I should before now have beat up your quarters ; for 
by this time you have doubtless ended your metropolitan campaign, and are 
safely seated in your Barhamian hybernacula,—rendered doubly agreeable by 
your long absence, It is only such domesticated animals as you and I that 
can feel all that is comprised in the word home,—feelings unknown to the 
votaries of variety and dissipation. I take it for granted you duly received 
the last long letter which I sent you through Macleay about six weeks ago, 
containing divers cogitations and suggestions relative to our work, on which 
I long for your opinion; for having made a collection of materials for the 
letters I am to undertake, I wish much to make a beginning upon them: but 
this I cannot satisfactorily do wntil I have your ideas as to the plan we are to 
follow. 
“As I never lose sight of the importance of putting our terms (doubtless 
to be immortal!) to the ordeal of every possible objection, I have several 
additional doubts and difficulties to propose to your consideration ; and, first, 
as to the Zlia and Ischia, about which latter term I believe I said something 
in my last. I am now fully convinced that both terms are radically. im- 
proper, both as being anatomically incorrect, and as being unnecessary. In 
the first place, Zlia employed in the plural number, as we must often employ 
it, is quite incorrect, for the Zia in anatomy are the flanks or sides of the 
umbilical region of the abdomen, Anatomists always say Os ilium when they 
