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start next year's attack. I do not know whether the ground 

 growths would permit of anything like paring being done 

 under the trees. The best way would be "sticky banding" in 

 October. At the Toddington fruit grounds one year 120,000 

 trees were sticky banded, but still this is work on an 

 enormous scale. These are the main points to work on, and 

 I should be very much pleased to enter on any of them 

 more in detail, but just now I am writing as soon as I can 

 (before going to church), as with Sunday and Bank Holiday 

 posts I am afraid this letter will not, at the earliest, reach 

 you until Tuesday morning, so please excuse such hastily 

 written lines. 



April 6, 1896. 



Now I am working on my Exhibit of Economic Ento- 

 mology for the Bath and West of England Society Show at 

 St. Albans. I think you will perhaps like to look at the 

 enclosed set of labels for the cases. 1 There are only a few 

 lines to be fixed outside each. In the catalogue there is a 

 fuller account, with prevention and remedy. Is it not a 

 triumph of condensation to get a little life history and pre- 

 vention and remedy of Wireworm into about half a dozen 

 lines ? But really there is enough if people would mind it. 

 I try to give injured material wherever I can, and there are 

 upwards of sixty infestations. Georgiana helps me with 

 twenty diagrams more beautiful than any of her previous 

 ones and the Council, who are very kind, have awarded us 

 all the privileges of stewards and members of Council for 

 the Show, so that we may have every convenience of transit 

 there. 



It gave me great pleasure to be appointed External 

 Examiner in Agricultural Entomology at Edinburgh Uni- 

 versity for besides enjoying such a great compliment it 

 will help my work. 



May 30, 1896. 



N.B. Confidential. I want to tell you how kind and nice 

 the Prince and Princess were at the Show. T.R.H. 

 shook hands when they arrived, quite heartily, and when I 

 had explained my own and my sister's exhibit I thought I 

 was to retire, but I found I was to attend round the other 

 exhibits in the building, so I walked on by the Princess 



1 See Appendix C. 



SAMPLE OF THE SCRAP NOTES LEFT BY MISS ORMEROD (SEE PAGE OPPOSITE) 

 RELATING TO THE GREAT WATER BEETLE RECOGNISED BY THE PRINCE OF 

 WALES, NOW KING EDWARD VII., AT ST. ALBANS' SHOW. 



