302 LETTERS TO PROFESSOR WALLACE [CHAP. xxv. 



May 24, 1900. 



DEAR PROFESSOR WALLACE, Will you kindly accept 

 the enclosed photograph. It does not seem to be 

 quite me, but "me" does not quite know myself yet 

 in cap and gown. At least it may remind you some- 

 times of most hearty gratitude for all your kind care 

 which enabled me to come to personally receive the great 

 honour symbolised. 



Dr. MacDougall was good enough to send me some 

 splendid specimens of bark infested by Hylesinus creuatus 

 (Greater ash-bark beetle), which have enabled me to figure 

 this attack. I should like very much indeed to form a 

 " Handbook of Insects Injurious to Forest Trees," and I 

 have a mass of material in my Annual Reports bringing the 

 subject, I think, up to date, and a beautiful supply of figures, 

 but there is such a run of application and correspondence 

 that I do not see my way to doing it myself and yet it 

 seems a pity for the information to be lying compara- 

 tively idle. 



May 29, 1900. 



Now I must say that you wrote exactly what I was wish- 

 ing about my proposed book, "Insects Injurious to Forest 

 Trees." I In case Dr. MacDougall would not think me taking 

 a liberty in suggesting the plan, I should very much indeed 

 like to have the benefit of his skilled help in preparing the 

 book, that is bringing it out in collaboration with him, and 

 with our names on the title-page. Would you kindly take 

 the trouble when you see him to lay the matter before him, 

 for I scarcely like to come upon him suddenly without, so to 

 say, a " sponsor." My idea is that the forest attacks would 

 work out much like the papers in my" Handbook," of which 

 of course I would gladly send a copy for his acceptance as well 

 as material, i.e., Annual Reports or sometimes, if more con- 

 venient, extracted papers and a copy of "General Index." 

 I would undertake all expenses, i.e., printing, publishing, 

 furnishing figures, and the like. I think I have of my own 

 nearly as many of good up-to-date illustrations as we should 

 need to illustrate every attack, but where additions are 

 needed I propose (as I am doing now from one of Dr. 

 MacDougall's specimens) to have them figured from life 

 by Mr. Knight. 2 I fancy the book would be about two- 



1 A suggestion that Dr. MacDougall should collaborate with Miss 

 Ormerod in bringing out the book. 



2 Messrs. Knight, one or other, have been my artists for many years. 

 I should like the printing to be, as usual, in the hands of Messrs. West, 

 Newman & Co. Mr. T. P. Newman has superintended my printing for 

 so many years. (E. A. O.) 



