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sea-shore. Moreover, each and 
every one of the parly, I will war- 
rant, will find his correspondents 
(perhaps previously unknown to 
him) men worth knowing, not, it 
may be, of the meditative and 
half-saintly type of dear old Isaac 
Walton (who, after all, was no fly- 
fisher, but a sedentary ‘ pop-joy,’ 
guilty of float and worm), but 
rather like his fly-fishing disciple 
Cotton, good fellows and men of 
the world, and perhaps something 
better over and above.” 
We had something more to say 
which we must, for want of space, 
reserve for another occasion. 
Mr. J. C. Bowring, of Hong 
Kong, at present on a visit to this 
country, has just purchased the 
collection of Rbyiicophorous Co- 
leoptera of M. Jekel, of Paris, 
well known for his long and assi- 
duous study of these beetles. 
This collection, consisting of more 
than 10,000 species, includes that 
of M. Gory and others, and is the 
richest ever formed in this section 
of Coleoptera. Mr. Bowriiig, al- 
though about to return to China, 
will not take this collection with 
him, but will deposit it in the 
British Museum for the use and 
benefit of his countrymen. Such 
munificence as this needs no com- 
ment, and is above all praise. 
But few persons have the power 
thus to confer a benefit on Science, 
and still fewer have the inclination 
to act with such disinterested libe- 
rality. 
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