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seemed best at the time : else I should often wish the E. E. 

 shells were still sleeping in the cellars, and I was bound never 

 to touch another shell. But health and strength permitting, 

 I shall finish the work. . . . As to the printing : as I have not 

 now time and money to keep my office open, I have deter- 

 mined to close it ; and have made arrangements with a 

 printer in town to work for me a day now and then at labels, 

 when he happens to be slack. I had always reckoned that I 

 had a right to use my private money in the printing, which was 

 my way of charity ; but it must now go to pot-boiling ! " 



He wrote to several friends in Canada, this autumn, to 

 know what his prospects were likely to be if he settled there; but 

 meanwhile he felt tied by his shell-work : and he was doubtful 

 whether the winter there would not be too severe for his wife 

 and boy. In a letter to Mr. Cottle, September 14, he says, 

 " I have just returned from attending the British Association 

 meeting in Manchester — the largest there has ever been ; and 

 am pretty well fagged out with my part of the work." What 

 it was, he does not relate; but Mr. J. A. Turner, M.P., a vice- 

 president, and Mr. R. D. Darbishire, a local secretary, testified 

 that he was most efficient there, and rendered most valuable 

 service in promptly arranging a series of zoological specimens. 

 But what was of chief importance, he was requested to prepare 

 a Supplement to his previous Report (vide p. 144) on the 

 Mollusca of the West Coast of North America. This took 

 about half a year's unremunerated labour,* and occupied 170 

 8vo pages. He presented it at Newcastle, in 1863, but kept 

 on adding to it, and correcting it from the arrival of fresh 

 materials, till it was printed, August, 1864. The object was — 

 " (1) to correct the errors that have been observed in the first 

 Report; and (2) to point out fresh sources of information." 



Great events were happening in America. All friends of 

 freedom rejoiced in the election of Lincoln as President, and 

 there was general reprobation of the Southern States that 



* The grant made by the Association did not do more than cover the 

 expenses of his journeys in collecting information. 



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