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the subject to make it possible for me to contribute anything further 

 on that subject at present. 



So much of my time now goes to economic entomology that I 

 have done very little on the other topic since I was at Columbus. I 

 hope to find time to take that up again next y^ar. 



Wishing you a pleasant and prosperous meeting, I am, 



Very truly yours. 



S. A. FORBES. 



CoLUMRiA, Mo., May 23, 1885. 



Dear Goodman: 



Am sorry that I do not see any way to get to Butler meeting. I 

 have to go to New Orleans to-morrow, and fear I shall not get back in 

 time. Will be at meeting if possible. 



» Yours, 



TRACY. 



KiRKWooD, Mo., May 28, 1885. 



Mr. L. A. Goodman., Sec'y HortH Society: 



Dear Sir — Your favor of 26th with programme for summer meeting^ 

 of the Society and other enclosures is received. 



If the distance were not so great, I should much enjoy attending: 

 the meeting to which you so kindly invite me, but as it is, and as my 

 father cannot leave his business, I do not think it will be possible. 



I have very pressing work until after the 4th of next month, but 

 if 1 can in any way gain time to prepare them, I will send a few ento- 

 mological notes embodying some of my observations for the season. 

 If I do find time for such a paper, I will send it to you at Butler just 

 before or during the meeting. 



Hoping that we may sometime have the Society meet with us ia 

 Kirkwood, instead of at such a distance, I am, 



Yours sincerely, 



M. E. M. 



P. S. — I believe I have already acknowledged the receipt of your 

 last report, but I am not quite sure. In any case, accept my thanks 

 and my assurance that I was very much pleased with it, barring some 

 printers' errors, which I presume you did not have the opportunity to 

 correct. 



The Rural New Yorker and some other journals gave the work a 

 deservedly favorable mention, which I was much gratified to see. 



M. E. M. 



