Mr. Thomas Bolton's Natural History Discoveries

Abstract

I ONLY became aware on Saturday evening last, the 15th inst., of the paragraph kindly inserted by Prof. E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., as editor, in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science for October, in reference to my studio and agency for the supply of microscopic organisms. Of course I have to thank him most sincerely for calling the attention of naturalists to my efforts, and so strongly calling on them to support me, but he has given me credit in some directions which is due to other naturalists to whom I am under considerable obligations. I wish to correct this view at once by writing to your periodical in preference to waiting till the next number of the Quarterly can appear. Prof. Lankester's language may lead those who have not seen other reports to put down the actual first finding of several organisms new to the British fauna to me, whereas several of them were first picked up by others.