From James Scott Bowerbank   14 October 1856

My Dear Sir

I have had a good hunt over my old stores to find you the plate sent which will I think illustrate your subject. The Plate illustrates a paper by J Zuetell Vol 1. Trans. Microscopical Soc ^y. of London p.55 & for your edification I send you a description of the Plate.

7. A bats hair shewing the absence of scales at the root

8. A portion of another hair on which the scales are placed at nearly right angles to the shaft

9. Another specimen in which the scales are placed obliquely.

10. A specimen in which the scales are smaller and only extend round a portion of the circumference

11. Scales removed from a Bats hair, of a light colour

12. Scales from a dark hair exhibiting the pigment

13. Scales removed from the hair of the Indian Bat which are beautifully serrated at their upper margins a.outside view b.inside view

14. A number of scales closely connected together.

15. Hair of a species of Vampire in which the scales are very evident at the upper part; at the lower they have been scratched off and the cellular interior of the hair is exhibited. [JSH writes in margin: ‘examine the Indonesian and Java bats’].

16. A small hair of the Indian Bat showing the pointed extremity, and the close manner in which the scales are arranged.

17 A hair of the same Bat exhibiting the whorls of scales more distant from each other and the smallness of the shaft between them.

18. A similar specimen from which the scales have been removed in certain parts. A scale lying detached from the hair.

I hope this may be of use to you & remain

My Dear Sir | yours most truly | J. S. Bowerbank