1895-] REPORTS ON ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY 245 



f^t a good translation made for me. I can read German and 

 rench, but I am sorry not to be able to write with ease in 

 either language. 



November 21, 1894. 



DEAR SIR, I had much pleasure in receiving your kind 

 letter yesterday, and also beg you to receive my very hearty 

 thanks for your kind and valuable gift of so many of your 

 writings received on the day before. But now I am going 

 to ask you a further favour. At your leisure would you 

 oblige me with the name of a dictionary which would help 

 me to understand them ? I do not understand Norwegian, 

 but, with the help of the Dano-Norwegian dictionary of 

 Mons. A. Larsen, I can manage to make out what I especially 

 need from Dr. Schoyen's writings, which he is so good as 

 to send me. But now I have been trying to translate your 

 few lines on Charceas graminis (Antler moth) (chap. XIII.), 

 and either from my own ignorance, which I much regret, 

 or from not having the right dictionary, I have not been 

 able to read them. 



P.S. It pleases me very much to hear from you that you 

 approve of my reports, and it is kind of you to mention it. 



December n, 1894. 



I thank you most heartily for sending me this useful 

 dictionary. It is just what I was needing. With this help 

 I can already make out short pieces of your reports and 

 publications, which is a great pleasure and profit to me. 

 It really was quite a vexation to see what I wanted so much 

 to study and yet could hardly make out any connected 

 meaning. I only just write now to say that both for your 

 kind and helpful gift and your letter accompanying I thank 

 you most heartily. 



March 5, 1895. 



I did not at once acknowledge your Report on Injurious 

 Insects which you have sent me because I thought very 

 likely you would send me a few lines about mine, and now 

 I beg to acknowledge your note with many thanks. What 

 a vast sum it is that you mention as the loss [about 5,000,000 

 Finn. Marks=ca. ^200,000, in the years 1889-1891] caused 

 by Charceas graminis, Antler moth (fig. 4) ! I am so sorry 

 that I am not able to read your reports, which, from the 

 little bits I can pick out here and there, are, I see, so 

 valuable and would help me so much. But please not to 

 think that they are wasted on me, for I learn a great deal 

 that helps me, and when there is something that I particularly 

 wish to know I get the passages translated, 



