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points of introduction, and remarks that it must not be confounded with 

 the " Virginia Wheat-fly " (cerealella). The reading of all these papers 

 simply confirms the conclusions which I have expressed in this communi- 

 cation. 



Washington, D. C, May 22nd, 1888. 



P. S. — In the above communication I have stated merely the facts of 

 the case without any attempt at explaining away Mr. Phillips's misleading 

 statements. The receipt, since the article was written, of the latest part 

 (No. 127) of the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 

 bringing them down to the meeting of May 4th last, induces me to add 

 this postscriptum. 



I spent the evening of May 3rd very delightfully with Dr. G. H. Horn, 

 who, as one of the secretaries of the American Philosophical Society, was 

 interested in my intended investigation of the old minutes ; in fact Dr. 

 Horn informed me that Mr. Phillips, knowing that he (Horn) was about 

 to visit Dr. Hagen on his way to Europe, had but a short time before 

 charged him to tell Dr. Hagen, that the latter might feel quite certain of 

 the accuracy of his (Phillips's) statements. I have already indicated my 

 surprise at finding them unverified, and shown how Mr. Phillips was 

 unable to give me any explanation of his mistake. 



There was to be an exceptionally interesting meeting of the Society 

 that evening, and I purposely remained in Philadelphia to attend it, and 

 took occasion to call attention to the error in the old minutes above set 

 forth. Mr. Phillips, following my remarks, threw all the blame for the 

 published error on Prof. Lesley who was absent in Europe at the time ; 

 and, having in mind his (Phillips's) communications to Hagen, this 

 conduct struck me as not very magnanimous. I deemed the correction 

 of this error of sufficient importance to go on record, and handed to the 

 Secretary for incorporation in the minutes a brief abstract of my remarks. 

 Judge of my surprise therefore to find the whole matter passed by in the 

 published minutes of that meeting of May 4th last, by the statement of 

 the Secretary that " Prof. C. V. Riley referred to a possible error of 

 transcription in the Volume of Early Proceedings (No. 119), on pages 14 

 and 15, as to the word Hessian Ply " (! !) Mr. Phillips's conduct in this 

 particular is as remarkable as his correspondence with Dr. Hagen, and 

 I call attention to it that it may no longer obscure the facts of history. 



