CHAPTER XXII 



LETTERS TO MR. JANSON AND MR. MEDD 



Deer Forest fly Flour moths Weevils Grouse and Cheese flies Beetles 

 Agricultural Education Committee The Water-baby Leaflet Paper on 

 Wasps. 



MR. JANSON, addressed in the opening letters of this chapter, 

 occupied the position of technical expert, to whom Miss 

 Ormerod referred her generally accurate identifications of 

 insects for confirmation. The cases of flour infestation 

 referred to we have learned of in Chapter X., " Legal 

 Experiences." The language employed is more technical 

 than in any other part of her correspondence the words 

 of an expert addressing herself to another expert in the 

 language of their common subject. Mr. Medd's name has 

 been more associated with education than entomology, 

 especially in relation to the comparatively new branch of 

 " Nature Study." 



To Mr. 0. E. Janson, Technical Expert in Entomology, 

 44, Great Russell Street, W.C. 



TORRINGTON HOUSE, ST. ALBAN'S, 



February 13, 1897. 



DEAR MR. JANSON, I hope that in a very few days you 

 will receive your copy of my twentieth Report, in which you 

 helped me so especially about the Forest flies. 



I am hoping you may be good enough to help me about 

 the enclosed, or kindly put me in the right path, for I greatly 

 hope that this may prove to be the long-needed observation 

 about amount of wings of the ? (female) Deer Forest fly, 

 the Lipoptera cervi (fig. 23). I received a day or two ago a 

 good number, many still alive, or fresh on a little piece of 

 Roe-deer's hide, which was infested with them even to being 



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