1892.] 



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cabbage and turnip roots, which we call here " Club " or 

 " Anbury," or " Finger and Toe." I do not know whether 

 you have it in Canada. You will recognise it perhaps best 

 under the scientific name of the " Slime fungus " which 

 causes it Plasmodiophora brassicce of Woronin. Our people 

 confuse it so constantly with maggot root attacks that they 

 send me a deal of inquiry about it, so I do not think there 

 can be any harm (as I have really studied it for many years) 

 in giving a paper on it in my next Report, and I have secured 

 three excellent photos from life, which I hope will each give 

 a good whole-page figure of the three chief forms respec- 

 tively. 



There are some nice new reports of infestation (so to 



i, Larva ; 2 and 3, females ; 4 and 5, eggs in different stages of 

 development all enormously magnified (2 from sketch by E. A. O. ; the 

 other figures after Prof. Geo. Atkinson). 



FIG. 49. TOMATO ROOT-KNOT EEL-WORM, HETERODERA (ANGUILLULA) 

 RADICICOLA, MULLER. 



describe them), and I am working as steadily as I can, but 

 I wish I could get on faster. I envy you your power of 

 doing sound and good work so rapidly. 



I have never thanked you for your excellent paper on the 

 " Horn fly " (Hcematobia connicola), which I read with very 

 great interest and benefit, and lodged some of your liberal 

 supply of copies where I thought they would be most 

 useful including getting attention drawn to the subject in 

 the " Agricultural Gazette." 



Dr. Bethune most kindly asked my sister and myself to 



