Our dear N.

Felt this, atid re- gretted the impossibility of preserving any adequate repre- sentation of what he declared to be the most striking and beautiful incident he had ever the good fortune to behold.

I thought of the story in Musaeuss Tales (a fiction known to the Arabians as well as the Germans) ; and had they been swans, instead of geese, could almost have fancied they were fairies in that form, and have looked about for a veil.

" Notes on Animals about Whitehaven, It is several years ago, since, as an amusement, I commenced butterfly-catching; but, in respect of science, I am still a mere tyro, and probably may always remain such, owing to the difficulties of arriving at a knowledge of classification and nomenclature ; both of which appear to me to have been so often modelled and re-modelled, as to present to the incipient entomologist an almost insurmountable obstacle to his progress at the very outset of his career.

These difficulties are artificial, and have been much increased by the multiplying of systems, which are, it seems, quite the rage with entomologists, who, instead of smoothing the way, and in order to get a name, create a sys- tem of their own, differing from all others, and consequently leading to confusion.