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and that tliere might be danger of its thus being conveyed across the 

 Atlantic. He added, it was not known where the eggs of the insect were 

 deposited, though it was supposed to be in the grain (p. 490). 



Nos. 2.5,7 ^^^^ S. Sir Joseph Banks mistook at first an insect called 

 the Flying Weevil for the Hessian Fly. But in a little time he corrected 

 his mistake, adding that the danger of importing this insect was much 

 greater than that of the Hessian Fly. He proposed an examination of the 

 corn already brought from America (p. 490). 



No. 12. General report of Sir Joseph Banks. None of the grain 

 which was examined showed any signs of the fly ; but as some imported 

 in August contained the chrysalis perhaps of the Flying Weevil, the cargo 

 should not be suffered to come into the kingdom (p. 490-491). 



No 15. Speaks of two insects infesting the wheat in France. The 

 Royal Soc. of Agriculture remarked that the larva of one of them does 

 not appear to differ from the American insect (the quotation of the Stock- 

 holm Memoirs leads to the supposition that this is Oscinis. — Dr. H. A. H.) 

 The mischief which they do to the corn having never been considerable 

 enough to attract the attention of the Government, the Society regrets not 

 being able to say anything particular upon that subject (p. 491). 



No. 17. Sir John Temple, at New York, the British Consul-general, 

 gives the statements of Mr. Morgan quoted by A. Fitch (491-492). 



No. 22. Mr. Bond gives good information, which is at some length 

 reprinted (p. 492-493). 



No. 26. From the whole correspondence on this subject. Sir Joseph 

 Banks drew up a report for the Privy Council, which is also reprinted at 

 some length, together with an appendix dated April 27, 1879 (P- 493"494)- 



No. 28. Mr. Bond's letter (p. 495). 



As much as the Professor has, after the study of the German literature, 

 changed his former opinions and conclusions, he will have to change the 

 remainder of his conclusions after a closer study of the American literature. 



" Now if the Hessian Fly (Packard, p. 239) had been indigenous 

 many years before 1776 in the wheat fields of this country, some at least 

 would probably have been carried in loads of grain to England." The 

 discovery in the minutes of the Amer. Philos. Soc. makes this presumption 

 untenable. The same is the case with the following supposition (p. 239) : 

 " On the other hand, it may have been imported into the French colonies 

 in Canada from Southern France, by immigrants." But it is well known 

 that the immigrants into the French colonies in Canada came all from the 



