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amongst the red spheres. He did not believe that they were 

 fungoid ; but thought,likeme, that they were eggs. Certainly 

 you are right in considering them not American blight, 

 although on one of the twigs you have sent me there is a 

 swelled cankered piece that looks very much, to general 

 observation, like that attack. 1 wish I could give you a plain 

 straightforward answer, but the above is the best I can tell 

 you at present. Mr. Nixon, whose name you will remember 

 in my yearly reports connected with Red spider, says that 

 he knows this " red deposit" well and does not think it does 

 harm, but I should think it would be but prudent to have 

 some soft soap mixture or antipest at hand, against hot 

 sunshine in late winter days. 



Many thanks for your good wishes, which I heartily reci- 



Moth ; caterpillars hanging by their threads, slightly larger than life ; 

 rolled oak-leaf. 



FIG. 29. OAK LEAF-ROLLER MOTH, TORTRIX VIRIDANA. 



procate, to you and to your young people. I cannot say I 

 have been well. However, I am much better, but we are 

 anxious, for my only remaining brother (who is nearly eighty) 

 had a stroke of palsy last year, and on Sunday he had a 

 second, but he is not suffering, which is a great comfort. 



July 3, 1896. 



I thank you very much for taking the trouble to send me 

 this good supply of Tabanidce, and still more especially for 

 the Forest flies. I thought these were all dead, but whilst I 

 was opening the bit of straw in which you pack them so 

 cleverly, they began to tear out headlong luckily I thought 

 of catching the whole affair together in my closed hand, and 



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