From Thomas Bell   12 July 1855

My dear Sir

I thank you very sincerely for your interesting enclosures— I should have been delighted with your labourers Horticultural Show & if I could by possibility I could have been with you I should have gladly run down to you [sic]— I hope to profit by your suggestions if I am ever able to carry out a similar plan for Selborne.

I have gone over the Podophthalmous Crustacea, and if you think this simple plan will do, I shall be very glad to do the Cephalia & Amphibia in the same way, or in any amended form that you may suggest— Westwood is at work upon the Edriophthalmatous Crustacea & the still lower forms, & could double up as well— & D ^r Hacid of the Brit: Mus: would be the best man for Entomostraca—

I go to Selborne on Saturday morning, & remain until Wednesday— after which I shall be in town for some time— I do not think however that any time will be lost by your writing to me here, as my letters are always forwarded to Selborne by the same evening’s post—

Believe me | my dear Sir | most truly yours | Thomas Bell