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value. What you say of the number of injurious insects 

 being greater, as well as the number of species, is very 

 interesting. I am hoping to utilise the reports of forest 

 insects which have been sent me up to date, in co-operation 

 with Dr. R. Stewart MacDougall, the consulting Entomo- 

 logist of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland. 

 I have much information scattered in my Annual Reports, 

 but I have not strength to work it and attend at the same 

 time (as I wish to do) to regular application, so we are 

 thinking that, as a " Textbook of Forestry " is much needed 

 for University use, we might work together ; that is, Dr. 

 MacDougall to take the heavy scientific part, as his engage- 

 ments allow, and I to add what I can to the entomological 

 notes which he has been collecting for years, and also give 

 the figures. I should like this collaboration very much. Mr. 

 Robert Wallace, the Professor of Agriculture in the Edin- 

 burgh University (an old friend of mine), is a very kind 

 ally, and now I do not feel so very lonely in my work. By 

 parcel post (posted with this letter) I am sending a photo of 

 myself, taken in Doctor's robes, for your kind acceptance ; I 

 hope you will approve of the appearance of your old friend 

 in her new dress ! With very kind remembrances and good 

 wishes, pray believe me, ever sincerely yours, 



ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, LL.D. 



To the Rev. Dr. C. J. S. Bethune, Editor of " The 

 Canadian Entomologist." 



TORRINGTON HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, ENGLAND, 



April i, 1895. 



MY DEAR MR. BETHUNE, My sister and myself were 

 indeed grieved and shocked to see from the papers you 

 kindly sent (received yesterday morning) what a disaster 

 had happened. 1 What a mercy that all the boys were saved ! 

 The order and promptness speak volumes for the spirit of 

 obedience and discipline and we have been reading the 

 whole history with the greatest sympathy and admiration. 

 Poor boys I feel so sorry for them running out into 

 the cold, to watch their pet collections and treasures 

 burning ! 



I gather that for building purposes you are fairly insured, 

 but will you let my sister and myself try to replace what we 



1 This reference is to the destruction by fire of the main building of 

 Trinity College School, Port Hope, Canada, of which Mr. Bethune was 

 Head Master for a period of 29 years ending 1899. 



