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much. They pay her "out of pocket" expenses of printing 

 and she presents the copyrights and her work. I think they 

 form a very beautiful collection, and I believe the Society 

 means to bring them out (together with my previous ones 

 p. 99) in little half-dozen sets. Thus, one set for village 

 schools, one for fruit growers, one for forest use. I hope 

 they will be very useful in this way for those who do not 

 wish to purchase the whole. 



We have certainly good proof this year that in our insular 

 climate cold does not "kill the grubs." If it were possible 

 it would even seem the Entomons were the better for it. 



September 26, 1891. 



A letter came from Adelaide to announce Mr. Frazer 

 Crawford's decease. It was caused by chronic gout and heart 

 disease. He had been as cheerful as usual, and when a friend 

 left him about nine o'clock in the evening he set to work to 

 prepare a scientific article, but not long after he went to 

 bed. On the following morning, October 3oth, the servant 

 found the lamp still burning, but Mr. Crawford had quietly 

 passed away as if in sleep with his book, a volume of Crypto- 

 gamic Botany, fallen from his hand. He was a perfectly 

 indefatigable worker ; even in the last month of his life, 

 weighed down as he was by all the inconveniences and 

 pains of hip disease besides those which took him from us, 

 he prepared a long paper on vegetable and other plant pests 

 for the "Garden and Field," in which he wrote, besides a 

 review of my Manual. And a warning paper by him on the 

 danger of importing Phylloxera appeared in the Report of 

 the Bureau of Agriculture of South Australia accompanying 

 the notice of his death. As a friend he was excessively 

 valued by all who knew his kindness and his worth, and 

 his loss is deeply regretted at Adelaide. To myself it is 

 a very great cause of regret both as a true friend and an 

 Entomological colleague. 



February 6-8, 1892. 



I have this afternoon sent the index to my fifteenth Report 

 up to press, and am now enjoying myself by at least begin- 

 ning a letter to you. I hope you will like the report. The 

 paper on Plutella cruciferarum (Diamond-back moth) is quite 

 enormously long, but I believe so far as evidence in my 

 hands shows, that, taking all points of the attack together, 

 it has been unexampled in this country before, and I was 

 very desirous to present a trustworthy record, which would 

 bear sifting at every corner as to what did happen, and 

 readers could judge for themselves whether my con- 



