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accompanying on p. 28, and the Sirex gigas, p. 69, are figures of 
which I was permitted the use from the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ 
set; the others (excepting where acknowledged accompanying) 
have mostly been drawn expressly for my own publications, and 
of these about eight now appear for the first time. 
The portrait, inserted by request, is from a photo by Messrs. 
Elliott & Fry, Baker Street, W. 
For myself, I hope that I may continue, so long as is wished, 
to give every attention in my power to such enquiries as may be 
addressed to me; and I can truly say that I should be both 
proud and thankful if I could hope to at all lessen the losses to 
our national agriculturists and fruit-growers by destructive and 
yet, if attended to, often remediable infestations of their crops. 
ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, F.E.S. 
Torrincton Hovusr, St. ALBAns : 
February, 1898. 
