MEMOm OF THE LATE JOHN SCALES. 
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collecting with renewed vigour after being so long kept from it. Mr. Watson * 
to whom I gave your message has been so lame all the summer that we have 
never been out together once, llis leg is something better but }'et far from 
well. He & Mrs. & Miss W. have been a tour to the sea coast towards 
Whitby & Stockton for a week lately which is the last he talks of making 
this summer. 
Have you seen the review of the Entomological Soc^^’s Transactions 
part the 1*‘ in the Monthly lleview this month ? They praise the plan & 
give credit to Mr. Haworth’s paper with some little drawback, but say that 
it would have been better if the Society had not been in such a haste to 
publish. 
AVe have had as delicious Harvest weather in this part as with you. Only 
one single heavy shower for these 2 months. Owing however to heavy dews 
& little wind much of the white corn is but just got in & I am told more 
.stacks have lieen pulled down from being overheated in consequence of 
being put up damp tlian was ever known. 
I heard from Mr. Kirby the other day. He had been spending a week at 
Halesworth with Dr. Hooker who of course you have heard is going to 
Ceylon in the spring.f 
Aly wife joins me in best respects to Mrs. Scales & yourself & I am 
My dear Sir 
Yours most truly 
AVilLIAM SPFJfCB. 
Drypool 11 Oct‘ 1810. 
“Mr. Rob‘ Scales Halvergate Acle Norfolk.” 
Mt dear Sir 
Having jast received the box of Insects }’ou were so good as 
to send me, I nrrite agreeably to your re(iuest to announce its arrival & to 
prevent your giving yourself unnecessary trouble in consequence of my last 
enquiring about it. I find that it has been some time arrived but owing to 
“ Drypool ” h.aving been omitted in the direction was not brought to me. 
Tiie insects were all in excellent condition & I return }-ou my best thanks 
for them. Carabus clathratus is a most beautiful species which I am much 
pleased to possess; & the rest are all interesting to me. AA'hat I know 
about them I proceed to state. 
The Curculio on Slum is quite new to me & evidently undescribed by 
Markham nor can I find it in Paykull. This very distinct species we will as 
you suggest call C. Sii a name which I do not recollect to be preoccupied. 
* Alost likely Mr. P. AA'. AA^atson of Cottingham near Hull, mentioned in 
two of the following letters and the author of ‘ Dendrologia Britannica.’ 
t Cf. Proc. Linn. Soc. 1865—66. pp. Ixvi. Ixvii. 
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