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MEMOIR OF THE LATE JOHN SCALES. 
ni5'self, some of the family, when we may be least expected to leave home. 
All join me in best remembrances to yourself Mrs. S. & family & I remain 
My dear Sir, 
2 Mead Place, Lambeth Most thankfully yours 
June 10 . 1811 . Jas. Soaverby. 
[On same sheet of paper.] 
My Leak Feiend 
You will on the other side find my Father’s acknowledgement 
of your kind present of a bone, it will serve him & the Antiquarian Zoologists 
to pick for some time, & will not soon be forgotten by your humble servant. 
It is very curious. 
I wish I had some news to tell you, but I am now so much out of the way 
of Entomologists that I have none in that way. It is indeed true that I am 
married and I am very comfortably situated. Many thanks for your kind 
wishes. May you & yours live long & enjoy the most uninterrupted 
felicit}'. 
It has been a source of particular pleasure to myself & all my friends 
who have seen 3'our letter to hear that you & family are well. Mr. Fenton 
desired to be kindly remembered to you as well as Mrs. Moreton. They are 
well and set o(f a few days ago for Southend where they are to spend a few 
weeks. Mr. Milne & Mr. Neale are also well. 
I have not made many acquisitions to my Cabinet lately — the singular 
insect that inhabits the Bat in the same way as the Hippohosca ovina does 
the Sheep is the greatest, ’tis called Nycteribia vespertilionum. Standish 
has bred male and female Glory of Kent, but both cripples. He has also bred 
the small pale Brindled Beauty — his Lobsters are dead. A new insect has been 
found lately in America which in the larva state feeds in the abdomen of 
the Wasp in a similar way to what the Stylops does in the body of the Bees 
in England. 
My Wife joins me and all friends in best respects to yourself, Mrs. S. & 
Family & I am 
My Dear Friend 
Mr. Eobert Scales Most sincerely 
Ilalvergate near Acle G. B. SoWEDBYi. 
Norfolk. 
My DEAR Sir, 
I embrace the earliest opportunity to render you 1113^ 
warmest thanks for your kind present of Insects, all of which except 
C«)’[cz(?fo] atrirostris of Paykull were new to me, of that I had one 
specimen but had not e-xamined it, until I received yours. I have no doubt 
that it is what you have named it, having compared it with Paykulls descrip- 
tion. I am sorr3' that I had not _vonr desiderata a few months socher, 
