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matter, that I should consider him to be the most thoroughly 

 trustworthy English referee." 



Mr. Janson's report was as follows : 



" Having carefully examined the specimens of insects 

 submitted to me under seal of Miss E. A. Ormerod, and 

 stated to have been found in the accompanying sample of 

 flour, named ' Radiant,' ' Strathness,' also the specimens 

 of insects, &c. &c., I identify them as the coleopterous 

 insect, known scientifically as Tribollum ferrugineum, in its 

 various stages of larva (grub), pupa (chrysalis), and imago 

 (beetle). I also find a single specimen of Trogoslta 

 mauritanica. . . In considering the important question as 

 to origin of the infestation, I am of opinion that the 

 evidence afforded clearly indicates the origin of the infesta- 

 tion to have been subsequent to the arrival of the flour at 

 Durban." 



[The case never came to trial, but the unanimity of the 

 expert opinion enabled Messrs. Ross T. Smith & Co. to 

 effect a compromise on terms they were willing to accept.] 



The following letter addressed to us by Mr. Wm. Simpson 

 of Messrs. R. & H. Hall, Limited, of Cork, Dublin, 

 Belfast and Waterford, shows a similar satisfactory termina- 

 tion to a case in which granary weevils had done serious 

 damage to a cargo of flour from San Francisco. 



" WESTPORT, Feb. 6, 1900. DEAR MADAM, Perhaps you 

 have not quite forgotten my visit to you in early summer 

 of last year when I submitted for your inspection a sample 

 of flour with weevil infestation from a cargo landed here. 

 It will I am sure interest you to know that we have just 

 settled the case out of Court by the owners of the vessel 

 paying us ^900 and our costs. We are pleased that the 

 matter is thus ended, but I cannot forbear from again 

 thanking you for all the attention and help you gave us in 

 the case and which was to us of the greatest value. Yours 

 very truly, (Sgd) WM. SIMPSON." 



