John Curtis

“ If there be any genera of which you desire specimens if I have duplicates they are quite at your service I have lately bought a valuable collection of Coleoptera from Senegal in which there are two species of Megacephala larger than any of our Carabidae, but I gave so much money for it that I must divide it and sell half. So you see I have not been idle and I am happy to learn that you can say the same. Trusting that you will never entirely neglect our favourite study and that when opportunities offer you will not forget Brit. ”

“ I think there can be no doubt that France is the most powerful nation in Europe with the means of doubling her strength and importance if she were disposed to enter as deeply into commerce as this country. ”

“ I absolutely spent two days in looking over his collections which with French and extra - European insects is becoming very interesting. For my own part I want the days to be doubled and my own life to equal that of the Patriarch to get through with my numerous engagements, for my correspondents are daily increasing and I fear from their not knowing what it is to be engaged in a Periodical Work that they feel themselves neglected. ”