CONGRATULATION ON LL.D. 295 



Now I hope you will not think me absolutely carried 

 away by the feeling of the importance of the honour to 

 myself, but amongst letters of congratulation I have one 

 from Dr. L. O. Howard, the Entomologist of the U.S. 

 Department of Agriculture, which pleases me very much. 

 He says : 



Dating WASHINGTON, D.C., April 7, 1900. 



"The receipt of your letter of 2ist March and of your 

 admirable twenty-third Annual Report reminds me that I 

 have been remiss in fulfilling a strong intention to write 

 you at my earliest convenience and congratulate you most 

 warmly on the well-deserved honour which you are to 

 receive from the University of Edinburgh. You are right ; 

 not only is it an honour to yourself, but it is an honour to 

 Economic Entomology, the force of which cannot be over- 

 estimated. 1 congratulate you very warmly. An LL.D. 

 from Edinburgh has always seemed to me to be one of the 

 highest honours which an Englishman (or woman now) 

 could gain." L. O. HOWARD. 



Dr. R. Stewart MacDougall wrote : 



SCOTTISH LIBERAL CLUB, EDINBURGH, Saturday. 



A telegram received in the morning made k impossible 

 for me to get to the McEwan Hall in time for my seat on 

 the platform. Among the audience, however, I had an 

 excellent opportunity of getting acquainted with u popular " 

 opinion, and I only wished you could have heard all the 

 kind things that were said about you. Somebody has said, 

 " Beware when all men (and all women) speak well of you." 

 Really I know no one so exposed to this temptation (if 

 temptation it be) as yourself. The honouring of our various 

 distinguished men naturally appeals most strongly to different 

 groups, but there is in addition about this latest honour 

 to yourself something which has touched the general 

 imagination. 



May you be long spared to wear the honour worthily. 



I hope that on your return you will find yourself none 

 the worse for your plucky journey north and all the atten- 

 dant fatigue. 



R. STEWART MACDOUGALL. 



Dr. Ritzema Bos wrote : 



AMSTERDAM, March 16, 1900. 



DEAR Miss ORMEROD, I was very much enjoyed to 

 read in your kind letter of i2th March that the Senatus of 



