I do not suppose that you expect the insects to be named, for that would be a most serious labour.

If you do not approve of this scheme, I should think it very likely that Mr.
Waterhouse would think it worth his while to set a series for you, retaining duplicates for himself; but I say this only on a venture.
You might trust Mr.Waterhouse implicitly, which I fear, as [illegible] goes, is more than can be said for all entomologists.

I presume, if you thought of either scheme, Sir Charles Lyell could easily see the gentlemen and arrange it; but, if not, I could do so when next I come to town, which, however, will not be for three or four weeks.
With respect to giving your children a taste for Natural History, I will venture one remark--viz., that giving them specimens in my opinion would tend to destroy such taste.

Youngsters must be themselves collectors to acquire a taste; and if I had a collection of English lepidoptera, I would be systematically most miserly, and not give my boys half a dozen butterflies in the year.

Your eldest has the brow of an observer, if there be the least truth in phrenology.