CHAPTER XXIII 



LETTERS TO PROFESSOR ROBERT WALLACE BEFORE IQOO 



Washing Wheat Text-book on Insects Grease-banding Trees Steven 

 Lecturer on Agricultural Entomology Australian agriculture Examiner 

 in Agricultural Entomology Insect cases presented to the University 

 Death of Miss G. E. Ormerod. 



THE four remaining chapters, consisting chiefly of letters 

 addressed to the editor, are of a more general, less technical 

 nature than those that go before. They deal more with 

 University and personal matters, and with efforts being 

 made to advance the cause of -Economic Entomology than 

 with the structural details and habits of insects. 



To Professor Robert Wallace, University of Edinburgh. 



TORRINGTON HOUSE, ST. ALBAXS, 



August 20, 1888. 



DEAR PROFESSOR WALLACE, I have delayed for a short 

 time thanking you for your very kind present of your 

 beautiful as well as valuable book on " Indian Agriculture," 1 

 as I wished to make a little acquaintance with it before 

 writing. Now I see what a great amount of serviceable 

 information you have collected, and I am greatly obliged 

 for such an addition to my library. I note what you wisely 

 say about not substituting our implements hastily for native 

 kinds better fitted to the land, but just now your explicit 

 account of " wheat cleaning," beginning at p. 227, interests 

 me exceedingly. I should be so glad if, when you have 

 leisure, you would tell me a little more about this. You 

 mention Messrs. Dell and Son, of London, as the firm that 

 specially gave you information. I have been in communi- 

 cation about cleaning wheat with some of the Hull millers, 

 one of the large corn brokers in Liverpool, and some other 



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