August 6 + 

In the evening, S⁠⸺ and I cycled to S⁠⸺, and when it was dark we went down on the rocks and lit a fire which crackled and burnt in the dusk of the evening.⁠ ⁠… Intend to do a bit to Beetles these hols. Rev. J. Wood in the B.O.P. has incited me to take them up, and it is really time, for at present I am as ignorant as I can hang together of the Coleoptera. + 