1900.] SNAIL-SLUG AND LAND PLANARIAN 193 



cal shape, and leaving the moss on which it lay made such 

 fair speed (by adhesion of the lower surface) up the side of 

 the bowl, bearing an unpleasant looking bilobed head before 

 it, that I restored it to its box as soon as might be. 



January 24, 1900. 



I thank you most sincerely for this great trouble which 

 you have been good enough to take for me. I feel very 

 much gratified that you should place my Index in such dis- 

 tinguished hands, and I thank you very much also for your 

 kind letter. Please allow me to add that if you should at 

 any time care to accept copies of any works of mine which 

 are in print, for yourself or friends, it would be a real 

 pleasure to me to be allowed to send them. 



I had a very pleasant letter from Mr. Lounsbury a few 

 days ago. He is working with great interest on the " tick " 

 [which conveys the disease known as red-water or Texas 

 fever to cattle.] 



March 21, 1900. 



I do not know whether, according to etiquette, I am quite 

 right in mentioning the following matter, but I think that to 

 a kind friend like yourself I may mention the great gratifi- 

 cation it was to me lately to hear from the University of 

 Edinburgh that they were about to confer on me the 

 Honorary LL.D. I feel this to be a great honour. It is 

 not only the compliment to myself that gratifies me, but I 

 greatly hope that one of our chief British Universities 

 giving its approval to Economic Entomology will be a 

 great strengthening to work in this country, which it has 

 greatly needed. 



April 30, 1900. 



I was very much gratified by your kind congratulations 

 (p. 295) on the great honour which the University of Edin- 

 burgh has conferred on me. They were all very kind when 

 I went to receive the degree. I had the great pleasure one 

 day of meeting His Excellency your Ambassador at the 

 Vice-Chancellor's [Sir William Muir], and was charmed 

 with the kind interest with which he conversed on Agri- 

 cultural Entomology, and indeed all subjects which were 

 brought forward. At the ceremony I was next to him, and 

 now and then he kindly interchanged a few pleasant words. 

 As I took my seat by him after receiving the degree he 

 gently whispered, " I congratulate you ; you did it splen- 

 didly," and I thought it very interesting that my first 

 congratulation should be so kindly given me by the 



