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trouble enough, with fire, water, and " sausages " ! I am 

 truly glad that your books and insects were not very much 

 damaged. But I hope you will not peril your valuable 

 health by turning yourself into a pasturage ground as you 

 say, for these very detestable ticks. Much better try the 

 convict ! His nervous system will not be so delicate. 1 



July 5, 1900. 



I learn with great pleasure that you and Mrs. Lounsbury 

 are coming back through England, and I hope you will be 

 able to give me the great pleasure of your looking in here. 

 I should be so glad to see you, and you and 1 could have 

 some delightful entomological talk. On Saturday next, I 

 hope to see Dr. John B. Smith, State Entomologist of New 

 Jersey. 



What a business you must have in transporting your 

 parasites from America to Cape Colony, but I hope you 

 will have good success in obtaining the specimens you are 

 needing. Yours sincerely, 



ELEANOR A. ORMEROD. 



To Claude Fuller, Esq., Entomologist Department of Agriculture, 

 Pietermaritzburg, Natal. 



TORRINGTON HOUSE, ST. ALBAXS, 



November^, 1898. 



DEAR MR. FULLER, I would very gladly in reply to 

 your request, offer you any suggestion in my power, but 

 I scarcely know whether my ideas would be serviceable. 

 Judging by my own experiences in purchase by farmers 

 or fruit-growers of books which they certainly need and 

 wish to have the information contained in, I should not 

 expect any publisher to take any MS. of mine as a specula- 

 tion. The good folks wish for the books, but they do not, 

 at least only a very small proportion of them (I am speaking 

 of agriculturists) wish to buy. My work is done at a great 

 money loss, and my publishers do not take my books as a 

 speculation, but acf in fact as my agents. Could you not get 

 your MS. published in a serial, with a stipulation, that you 

 held copyright, and so your valuable information would be 

 brought forward without cost to yourself. 



There is another point. The differences in species, even 

 in genera, are terribly difficult to be sure of amongst many 

 of the Scale insects, and many of the Aphides, and unless 



1 This note refers to a fire in Mr. Lounsbury' s department and to the 

 investigation of red water fever in cattle produced by ticks. 



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