Dear Mr. POULTON, 
Amsterdam, Z. 
J.W.Brouwersplein 9 . 
m Jan. 1.034. 
With the sane post I send you a separate, bearing on the plication 
of the fore-wings of Lepidoptera. Perhaps though written in Dutch it 
will interest you. 
Secondly I have to ask you some questions, which possibly you may 
be able to answer. In a volume, that had nothing to do with the sub¬ 
ject, 1 found bound in, a magnificent dtawing of ^hrj.sina macrojus 
Francillon. It is an original drawing by Sydney EDWARDS, 23 Nov. *792, 
that apparently served for the plate in FRANDILLON’s only entomological 
publication? ’’Description of a rare Scarabaeus (Sc. macropus^ from Po- 
tosi in South America, with engraved representation of the same, col¬ 
oured from nature.” London 48, 1795. 
Now the questions I should like to ask are: 
I. Is the type in Oxford or in the British Museum, as both Institutes 
participated in the purchase of Francillon’s collection (Catalogue of 
the collection of foreign Insects. London 1313, 88, pp.74)? 
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II. Do you know something about this illustrator Sydney EDWARDS? 
I hope you can find time to elucidate these questions. 
With kind regards 
Yours truly 
Sign. Dr. D. MAC GILLAVRY 
P.S. 
I herewith enclose a letter from my son. 
To Prof. E.B.POULTON, M.A.,D.Sc. 
F.R.S. 
Wykeham House, Banbury Road, OXFORD. 
Nice Clmiez 
Hermitage Hotel 
25 I 1934. 
Dear Dr. Mac Gillavry, 
Your letter with your son’s, arrived Just as we were on the point 
of starting to come Jer«. We return to Oxford on Febr. or 9 1 I will 
take the earliest opportunity of replying to both letters. I shall, I 
expect, require to consult my friends in the British Museum about Syd¬ 
ney EDWARDS <*: the type of the Scarabaeid but I hope to be able to find 
out the facts. 
With kind regards 
yours very sincerely 
Sign. E.B.POULTON. 
To Dr.D.Mac GILLAVRY 
Amsterdam Z. 
J.W.Brouwersplein 9. 
HOLLAND 
