With respect to science, I continued collecting minerals with much zeal, but quite unscientifically--all that I cared about was a new-NAMED mineral, and I hardly attempted to classify them.I must have observed insects with some little care, for when ten years old (1819) I went for threeweeks to Plas Edwards on the sea-coast in Wales, I was very much interested and surprised at seeing a large black and scarlet Hemipterous insect, many moths (Zygaena), and a Cicindela which are not found in Shropshire.I almost made up my mind to begin collecting all the insects which I could find dead, for on consulting my sister I concluded that it was not right to kill insects for the sake of making a collection.From reading White's 'Selborne,' I took much pleasure in watching the habits of birds, and even made notes on the subject.In my simplicity I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.