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short notes of information sent me, thus utilising what may 

 come to hand, but without being encumbered by perpetual 

 repetition, year after year, of life history and figures, of well 

 known, or w T hat should be well known, attacks. 



June 26, 1899. 



It is too good of you to give me the two copies of this 

 valuable pamphlet, " Some Insects Injurious to Stored 

 Grain," and I thank you very much. But I did not beg 

 for more of your publications, and tried to get them via 

 Messrs. Wesley, because you are so good to me, in con- 

 stantly presenting information quite invaluable to me, that, 

 as it is, I do not know how to reciprocate the kindness. We 

 have nothing like your publications to fall back on here, 



E.C.K. [ 6 4 



I, Snail-slug, in motion ; 2, contracted ; 3, head, with tentacles, 

 magnified ; 4, shell, upper and under side, slightly magnified ; 5, shell, 

 much magnified ; 6, egg (4 and 6 from Plate v. of Jeffrey's British 

 Conchology, vol. i. ; the other figures from specimens taken at St. 

 Albans). 



FIG. 44. SNAIL-SLUG, TESTACELLA ffALIOTWEA, DKAPARNAUU. 



and when a very heavy case is brought to me I naturally 

 benefit by your books. 



I have lately been called in about a cargo of flour of 

 46,200 seven-stone bags, every bag (so far as examined) 

 infested by Calandra ( = Sitophilus) granaria (Granary 

 weevil, fig. 68), and the Mediterranean Flour or Mill moth 

 (fig. 41), and it was for the importers that I was trying to 

 procure a copy, the other for my own lending. I am truly 

 obliged to you. 



My Index is not ready yet. I thought I could improve it, 



