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the Edinburgh University will confer on you the Honorary 

 Degree of Doctor of Laws, as an acknowledgment of the great 

 merits you have for the advancement of Economic Ento- 

 mology. I am glad to hear that the important work you 

 have done since so long years for Science and for Agricul- 

 ture will be recompensed in this way. I hope that you 

 may remain still for many years, what you have been 

 already for so long time, the first Economic Entomologist 

 of your country and one of the most famous Economic 

 Entomologists of the world. My wife asks me to offer also 

 her kind congratulations to you. December 19, 1899, it 

 was twenty-five years since I received the Degree of Doctor 

 of Natural Philosophy. On this day a deputation of repre- 

 sentatives of our Dutch Agriculture and Horticulture came 

 to me and offered me a statue of bronze the genius of 

 Science, with the subscription, "Ad lumen." It was pre- 

 sented to me in the name of many agriculturists and horti- 

 culturists in Holland and in Dutch India. The General 

 Director of Agriculture came also to me, and told me that 

 H.M. our Queen offered me the grade of Knight of the 

 Dutch Lion (Ridder in de Orde von den Nederlandsche 

 Leeuwen). It was a beautiful day for us indeed. With many 

 kind regards, believe me, yours very truly, 



RITZEMA Bos. 



Lord Grimthorpe wrote : 



ST. ALBANS, Ash Wednesday, 1900. 



DEAR Miss ORMEROD, " I lose not a moment" (as the 

 story is) in congratulating you, or myself, on the honour of 

 our becoming a brother and sister in Laws, as one of my 

 nieces points out in a newspaper. The Princess of Wales 

 has only the inferior position of a sister in Music, and those 

 in Medicine are quite common now. I am sorry that we, 

 neither of us, dare venture to go out and pay our duty in 

 person in this weather as unique as your new position 

 and I was sorry to miss you the last time you came here. 

 My dear wife, who has been worse than I am though more 

 capable of recovery, is slowly doing so. She was in an 

 alarming state for some time under the abominable 

 influence of the general pest, influenza. 



Though I write badly and with difficulty, I am better in 

 general strength, but shall never be well. However, I am 

 thankful to be no worse, and to have a nice series of 

 benevolent relations of two generations here, and to be here 

 instead of London or Bath. Tea generally goes on at 4^ 



