Henry Matthey has written to his parents in Turin stating the cases of natural history drawings sent by Giorna have been detained by Customs due to his lack of money. Matthey's parents have asked Smith to anonymously pay the duties plus £2 for anything Matthey may need, Smith to be reimbursed from the proceeds of selling the drawings. Comments that Viller's "Entomologia Linnaeana" should have been called "Entomogia Europea Juxta Sistema Linneai" as only European insects are described. Complains that the authors of the "Collection des papillons de l'Europe" have abandoned it at the sixteenth installment.