Hitcham, Hadleigh, Suffolk
29 Decr. 1851
My dear Dale,
I believe I am indebted to you for a notice of the Dorset Nat. History Society which came to me after a few wanderings in the enclosed envelope addressed to Norfolk instead of Suffolk. I suppose you sent it as a return to a notice I forwarded you about a typical series we are establishing in the Ipswich Museum & hope to see copied into all provincial museums with such alterations & improvements as may be locally appropriate. You mention Wollaston. I hope he has pretty well reestablished his health. I don't know where he is to be found or I would send him one of our circulars on the chance of finding him willing to lend a helping hand. A few common things typical of the chief groups is what we most want - but any named specimens are serviceable to us.
Ever yrs truly
J. S. Henslow
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