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some species under the microscope. At this college is a mag- 

 nificent collection of " footprints : " one slab is about eleven 

 feet long. " It is curious to see the very different appearance 

 of the same foot in different layers. There are the great birds, 

 and other pleasant little birds which hopped about, frogs who 

 6 would a wooing go/ crustaceans, and insects : at the same 

 time our beasts were waddling about at Lymm " (near Warring- 

 ton). At this secluded college there are other valuable col- 

 lections, especially one of meteorolites (said to be the best 

 next to that at Vienna), which was shown him by the owner, 

 Professor Shepherd. He boarded with Mrs. Adams, and 

 enjoyed his stay there ; seeing a little of college life, and hear- 

 ing many particulars of Professor Adams, who, like himself, 

 was an enthusiastic naturalist. In 1863, Philip wrote a 

 " Review of Professor C. B. Adams's Catalogue of the Shells of 

 Panama, from the Type Specimens," which appeared in the 

 Proceedings of the Zoological Society in London (pp. 339- 

 369); and (in 1865) a paper on some new species in that col- 

 lection (Proceedings, etc., pp. 274-277). 



From New York he wrote : " I called on Mr. Bland, the 

 conchologist, who received me with great delight, and instantly 

 carried me off to his house at Brooklyn, and we set to work at 

 shells. He has the best collection known of North American 

 and West Indian shells, and truly lovely they are : the new 

 forms of some of the West Indian are very extraordinary and 

 beautiful." Mr. Bland took him to see the collections of other 

 conchologists. On his way to Philadelphia he called on an 

 emigrant from Warrington at South Amboy, noted for its 

 oyster-grounds ; and at Burlington he stayed two days at the 

 hospitable house of Mr. Binney, to examine his father's great 

 collection of American land shells. Mr. Binney, whom he 

 had met at Boston, was from home, but had left instructions 

 that he should help himself to duplicates. It is not often that 

 collectors have such confidence reposed in them ! 



At Philadelphia he boarded with Mr. W. Still, a mulatto,, 

 who was the chief agent of the underground railroad. Two 

 fugitives had just arrived from the South on their way to 



