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Following this information, a letter was received at the Bureau of 

 Entomology, dated October 27, from Doctor Marchal, and addressed 

 to the writer. Translated excerpts from this letter, which will be 

 of interest to State and Experiment Station entomologists and to 

 horticultural inspectors, may be quoted as follows: 



"As you have already been informed by the Minister of Agriculture, 

 I have been officially charged with the delivery of the accompanying 

 certificates upon material exported by nurserymen to the United 

 States, who demand a phytopathological inspection. I myself visited 

 from the 9th to the 13th of October the nurseries in the neighborhood 

 of Nantes, Angers and Orleans. At Nantes and at Angers I was ac- 

 companied by Mr. Vuillet, of Rennes, and we examined together a 

 very great number of plots. In spite of all of our care, we have not 

 found any eggs of dispar, and in my whole journey I found only four 

 nests of chrysorrhoea. Everywhere I have given a description of the 

 insects, and recommended the greatest care. The certificates which 

 I will give will be in accordance with the models enclosed. They 

 will shortly be printed. No. 1 will be in the most demand, and is to 

 be attached to the sendings of nurserymen having plots belonging 

 to them and under their direct care. While the certificate makes 

 mention only of plots, and not of sendings, I reserve for myself the 

 right to make visits at the time of shipment or of packing, or any 

 time when I can form the best judgment. These visits will serve to 

 check an inspection of the plots themselves. I have hmited the cer- 

 tificate to the plots without speaking of the sendings on account of 

 the impossibility I would find of inspecting one by one all of the pack- 

 ages which are sent. The important point, aside from the inspection 

 of the plots themselves, is that if the nurserymen know that an inspec- 

 tor can come at any moment they will be much more careful." 



"Certificate No. 2 is destined for exporters who have no plots 

 belonging to them or under their direct eye, and it imphes at least 

 one visit of inspection for each sending. I have named as inspector 

 for the region of Nantes and Angers, Mr. Vuillet of Rennes, who al- 

 ways does his work with great conscientiousness. I have seen him 

 at work, and I appreciate his competence. In all probability he 

 will also be charged with the region of Ussy, which I intend to per- 

 sonally visit within a few days. My assistant, Mr. Guinaux, will 

 take the region of Orleans. I myself and Mr. LeCerf will attend to 

 the region about Paris. Finally I count on Mr. Poirault, director 

 of the Villa Thuret, at Antibes, a very distinguished biologist and 

 botanist, for the southern region. 



"I desire that in future the provisional organization which has been 

 instituted should be completed and become permanent, but in order 



