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MEMOIR OF THE LATE JOHN SCALES. 
marked in your Cabinet. Eut we will draw up a list with two columns, one 
the Insects I beg of you & the other what you agree to accept in exchange 
& then we shall work in daylight. And if any Insects are in the London 
parcel which I purchase, we can strike out the names in our list. 
P.S. When I read over the above I am out of temper with what I say 
about the “ lot ” & “ parcel ” of Insects to be purchased. In our present 
circumstances it is more fair to say that I am going to London with 
Mr. Kirby to look over & treat for the purchase of no other, & no less, than 
the Foreign & British Collection of E. Francillon, Esq"' Norfolk St. Strand ! 
Eut I beg you will not mention this to any one till I return Only N. E. S. 
& Kirby & Francillon know of it. I must again sign this vast Postscript 
with S. Wilkin 
Apiones ex mus. D. Scales — 
Where there were three specimens of desiderata to me I have taken them 
as I know Kirby wants but one of those he described. 
[List follows with the determination more or less provisional of 69 out of 
08 specimens.] 
“ Mr. Scales Halvergate ” 
Barham Mat 3 : 1811. 
Dear Sir 
I owe you many apologies for having so long detained 
your Apions. The truth is my time is so fully occupied in preparing the 
Introduction to Entomology that Mr. Spence & I have jointly undertaken, 
that I have little leisure to look over insects. I have at this time by me a 
box of Mr. J. Hooker’s & another of Mr. Leach’s which I have had longer 
than yours. At this time I don’t know what duplicates I have, but I hope 
one day to have more leisure to look them over — when I shall be happ}' to 
fill up any of your gaps — I have however sent you a specimen of my fine 
Apion Limonii: Cnrc.\uUo'] Sii 1 have from Mr. Leach. Shall be happy 
to possess C. atrirostris also the tuberculated one you mention having 
found on Equisetum. Many thanks for the Lepturce, & for your kind 
intention to give me Car ; clathratus when you meet with another. 
Shall be happy to give you a look when I come into Norfolk, & should you 
travel this way to shew my collection to you. On the other side are the 
names of your Apions — & am Dear Sir 
Yrs. very truly Wm; Kirbv. 
[List follows headed “ Mr. Scales’s Apions ” — being the determination of 
68 specimens.*] 
“ — Scales, Esq” : ” 
[* No. 66 is “Apion genistaj Append.*’ of which Kirby says (Trans. Linn. 
Soo. vol. X. p. 347) ‘‘ Ilahitat in Anglico Genista tinetorid, Dom. Scales. 
Mus. Dom. Marsham, Milne, Scales, Spence, Geo. Sowerby, nostr.”] 
