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CORRESPONDENCE. 
Cursory Remarks on 44 The Naturalist.” 
To the Editor of the Naturalist. 
Dear Sir, —In a bye-gone No. of The Analyst , when you were part Editor, 
one of your contributors headed an article with a rather severe animadversion on 
the 44 use of apologies.” Thinking it not unlikely you may partake of those 
sentiments, I have taken the liberty of addressing this sheet to you without the 
formality of offering one. In commencing I can not allow the opportunity to 
pass of alluding to your excellent number of The Naturalist for October last? 
containing the memoir of Dr. Latham. You have doubtless, ere this, had many 
gratulations, from other readers of your periodical, on the very able manner in 
which you have treated the narrative of a great and good man. My poor tardy 
offering of thanks is no less sincere; for, believe me, I experienced much pleasure 
in the perusal of it, and look forward with increased delight for the succeeding 
numbers. The plate is clear and expressive, and forms an admirable frontispiece 
to the fourth volume. 
I hope in your list of living naturalists 44 to be shewn up,” the worthy "squire 
of Walton Hall will not be. forgotten. I long to see his face in print, if only to 
look his likeness a volume of thanks, for his enchanting Essays on Natural 
History , all of which are welcome to one’s eyes, as the faces of old friends ever 
ought to be. Surely I am not singular in wishing the ’squire, who, as he quotes, 
is in his 44 vernal vigour and autumnal green,” would take his 44 lute from the 
wall,” and favour us with a few more of its pleasing strains. 
Mr. Rylanbs’s article in the Oct. No. (p. 8), on the use and abuse of prints, 
sounds so like the crack of a critic’s whip, that I dread saying much, for fear of 
coming within the reach of its lash. Mr. R. has apparently overcome the difficul¬ 
ties, 44 thickly strewn as leaves in vallambrosa,” that beset the path of the 
entomological tyro, and now thinks lightly of them; and so doubtless will others 
when they can call a well-filled cabinet of creatures with titles like hieroglyphics 
by name; for my own part I am not onty glad to be able to assist the circulation 
of works on insects by purchasing, but readily avail myself of the proffered help 
of the pages of Shuckard’s Manual and Westwood’s Introduction , &c. I 
only regret that Curtis’s British Entomology is too expensive to allow me to 
add that splendid work to the number. In The Naturalist for November there 
was no review of Gould’s Birds of Europe from your pen. I hope those really 
instructive and pleasing papers are not to be discontinued. 
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