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just think, at the head of the Royal party, before the Prince 

 and all of them ! When we had gone round the Prince 

 said, " Now, I think we must be going," and he shook 

 hands again, and the Princess, who was a little ahead, 

 turned back and shook hands also. I was told by one of 

 the officials that the Prince expressed himself afterwards as 

 much interested, and my informant had told the Prince 

 that I was doing work in this country which was done in 

 other countries by the State. H.R.H. was so interested 

 about the warbles that he called up Lord Clarendon 

 to look at the great photo of the warbled red deer's hide 

 too, and we had quite a chat together. 



FIG. II. WATER BEETLE, DYTISCUS MARGINALIS, LINN. 



June 15, 1899. 



I had great pleasure in receiving your very kind letter, and 

 I thought a great deal of you, and your flock, on the prize 

 day. But now I am troubling you (the idea occurred too 

 late to be of use at the time), to ask whether you would at 

 all care to have (say) ten copies of my " Manual of Injurious 

 Insects," to give just as you may think fit as an encourage- 

 ment to the boys or perhaps a present here or there to one 

 who might be leaving school and taking up farming. I 

 should like it very much. You have it yourself and (I 

 think ?) one for the school library, and Mr. D. E. Byrd 

 must have his father's copy, but if you cared to have some 

 copies it would really give me very great pleasure. Though 

 fruit-insect prevention has made great advances in the last 

 few years, this is not a special Cheshire interest, the agri- 

 cultural observations are very correct still. 



Mr. D. E. Byrd has kindly given me some very good 



