H4 LETTERS TO MR. BAILEY [CHAP. xiv. 



boys, having become well acquainted with the pests, were 

 instructed as to the best methods of prevention and remedy. 

 These boys will, in the course of a very few years, be the 

 farmers and farm labourers of this district, and I am satisfied 

 that even the little instruction which I am able to give them 

 in what I may call " Practical Entomology " will then be 

 found to be of considerable use to them. W. BAILEY. 1 



Moth at rest, and with wings spread ; caterpillar walking. 



FIG. 9. MAGPIE MOTH (CURRANT AND GOOSEBERRY), ABRAXAS 

 GROSSULARIATA, LINN. 



1 Mr. Bailey writes in August, 1902 : "The Haberdashers' Company 

 are the Governors of my school, and at our Midsummer distribution of 

 prizes in June, 1882, Mr. Curtis, who was a member of the deputation 

 who visited us in that year, suggested that it would be a good thing to 

 give instruction to the boys on Injurious Insects. Failing to obtain a 

 lecturer through South Kensington, at my suggestion, he called on 

 Miss Ormerod. She suggested that I should take the subject, and 

 added that she would give me all the assistance in her power. From 

 that day up to the day of her death she took the kindest interest in our 

 work. She presented to the school many books, beautiful diagrams, 

 and a series of insect cases [prepared by Mosley of the Huddersfield 

 Museum, after the cases arranged by Professor Westwood and Miss 

 Ormerod for the S. and A. Museum at Bethnal Green], and was a liberal 

 donor of prizes at Midsummer from 1885 to 1901 (both inclusive). 

 Every Midsummer she kindly wrote a letter to be read on that occasion 



