no 



LETTER BY MR. BAILEY [CHAP. xiv. 



how strongly the many letters which I have received this 

 year confirm the good effects of removal of the maggots 

 (2 of fig. 5, and fig. 7), and likewise the prevention (in 

 almost every case mentioned) of summer disturbance of the 

 cattle. 



I thought you would not object to my keeping a copy of 

 your letter to his Grace. 



The Committee of the " London Farmers' Club " which I 

 daresay you know more about than I do, but which I believe 

 to be the great Farmers' Club of England, has sent me an 

 urgent request to read them a paper on Injurious Insects, at 



i. 



i, Egg ; 2, maggot ; 3 and 4, chrysalis-case ; 5 and 6, fly. 3 and 5, 

 natural size, after Bracy Clark ; the other figures after Brauer, and all 

 magnified. 



FIG. 5. OX WARBLE FLY, OR BOX FLY, HYPODERMA BOV1S, DE GEER. 



their meeting place, the Salisbury Square Hotel, London, in 

 next April. Professor Herbert Little, one of the Council of 

 the Royal Agricultural Society, brought me the message, and 

 at first I felt fairly frightened at the idea, and tried to " make 

 excuse," for it is a somewhat anxious prospect (in the words 

 of old John Knox) for a gentlewoman to look in the face of 

 so many " bearded men and not be over much afraid," but 

 I got such serious remonstrance, almost rebuke, from 

 various quarters that I have consented to endeavour to 

 prepare as good a paper as I can, and read it myself. Now 

 if you permit me I think that in the portion about warbles 

 it would be very useful (and much more telling than any 



