Alexander Henry Haliday

“ Saunders will consent to judge for me on the grounds I state and decide on the affirmative I shall have no longer any apprehension of having happened on an unseasonable occasion for joining the society I wish to see an “United Italy” not to enter into a divided camp, if you and Mr. Saunders believe that there is good prospect of the Society now going on harmoniously in the main I put myself entirely in your hands and if proposed and elected I would wish at once to have the entrance fee and annual subscription paid. ”

“ Saunders should concur with me that such a course would really be the most beneficial for the interests of the Society I think you have sufficient confidence in the discretion of Mr. Saunders and myself to know that we would not place you in any false position. ”

“ Perhaps you will be so good as to retain a few pounds besides in case of my again (as before) availing myself of the good offices of the Stettin Soct to procure books for instance — if in their list of separate impressions are Thomson’s Proctotrupinae of Sweden, 6 papers and of Swedish Academy “Ofversigt”. The German Ent. Societies seem rather controversially given, too, between (if no within) themselves; but after all one must consider that one or two angry wasps make more noise than a whole hive of sober, busy bees. ”