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give me. I will try not to keep the books over-long, and 

 will return them carefully packed. 



November i, 1900. 



Is it of interest to you (in case that you have not heard) to 

 know of the decease, on the i3th of October, of Professor 

 Josef Mik, of Vienna, after a short illness ? I shall miss 

 him, for he was a friendly colleague, and was good enough 

 to send me a little collection of types of Tabanidce which 

 have been a great help. 



I was rather perplexed how to name these three newly- 

 imported species of Bruchus, but for want of a better I 

 thought that sad-coloured bean-seed weevil, B. tristis ; red- 

 footed bean-seed weevil, B. rufipes; and red-horned . bean- 

 seed weevil, B. ruficornis \ L = brachialis] would do fairly. 



Yours very truly. 



ELEANOR A. ORMEROD. 



EC.K. 



Beetle and wing, magnified ; line showing natural length of beetle. 



FIG. 75. " SPLINT," OR SAP-WOOD BEETLE, SCOLYTUS PRUNI, RATZ. 



To J. C. Medd, Esq., Stratton, Cirencester. 



TORRINGTON HOUSE, ST. ALBANS, 



March 12, 1900. 



DEAR MR. MEDD, I am much obliged by the packet of 

 publications regarding the work of the " Agricultural Educa- 

 tion Committee," 1 and I note excellent names in your list of 

 members, and some excellently true observations in your 

 four-page leaflet, "Agricultural Instruction in the Elemen- 

 tary School." But it is with great difficulty that I am able 

 to keep my own work in hand, and I have been quite unable 

 to find time to study the other pamphlets which you have 

 been good enough to send me, although, from their titles, 



1 The Agricultural Education Committee, 10, Queen Anne's Gate, 

 Westminster, S.W., was formed in the autumn of 1899, with Sir W. 

 Hart-Dyke, Bart, M.P., as Chairman, and the Rt. Hon. Henry 

 Hobhouse, M.P., as Hon, Secretary. (J. C, M.) 



