CHAPTER XIX 



LETTERS TO DR. J. FLETCHER 



General references to insect infestation Progress of Economic Entomology 

 Success in using Paris-green in Britain End of work done for the 

 Board of Agriculture and Royal Agricultural Society of England. 



THE series of selected letters to Dr. Fletcher in this and 

 the succeeding chapter is the most comprehensive of the 

 remnants of Miss Ormerod's correspondence with distant 

 scientific authorities. Although only a portion of the 

 original group of letters, it ranges over a period of fourteen 

 years, and touches, sometimes only lightly, a great many of 

 the leading objects of interest which had specially engaged 

 her attention. Some phases of character come out here 

 more conspicuously than in any other part of the volume. 

 The mutual confidence in business matters which speedily 

 established itself developed in this, as in most other 

 instances, into intimate personal friendship. 



To Dr. J. Fletcher, Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa, Canada. 



DUNSTER LODGE, SPRING GROVE, ISLEWORTH, ENGLAND, 



February 4, 1886. 



DEAR MR. FLETCHER, You ask about gas lime (as a 

 top dressing for land). There is certainly need for caution 

 in its use, but I do not think you would find a better short 

 treatise on it than the little paper printed by the late Dr. 

 [Augustus] Voelcker, of which I have had a copy taken for 

 you (now enclosed with much pleasure), for I do not know 

 where (or whether) it was published. 1 The kind old man 

 sent me a copy \vhen I wrote to him during his last illness, 



1 Printed by King, Sell, & Railton, Limited, 12, Gough Square, and 

 4, Bolt Court, B.C. 



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