306 LETTERS TO PROFESSOR WALLACE [CHAP. xxv. 



the first sheet of "Flies Injurious to Stock/' I should like to 

 send one to you, please ; not to trouble you, but just that 

 you may see how it is getting on. 



August 25, 1900. 



Mr. Elliott tells me that " the oil painting " is to be quite 

 ready on (or about) the fourteenth September, and I have 

 ordered one of their best " rich " gilt frames in which it is to 

 come down here. I hope much that I may somehow or 

 other, be able either before completion or here, to secure the 

 saving of anxiety to my mind by your seeing it. But I have 

 not as yet written to submit my suggestion of acceptance to 

 Dr. Taylor, for may be I had better see what I look like first. 



Enclosed are two sheets of my progressing little pamphlet. 

 Please do not trouble yourself by readin gthem, but, if at 

 any time you care to glance over them, I hope you will like 

 them. I had no idea till I set regularly to work what need 

 there was of bringing the matters up-to-date. I think the 

 brochure seems likely to run to about three and a half 

 sheets, with Index. When you come you shall tell me, 

 please, whether you will let me offer some for your class. 

 I should very much like to and you will tell me too, 

 about Manuals. 1 



September 4, 1900. 



It was a great pleasure to me to receive both your letters, 

 but I was afraid of intruding too much on your time, so 

 I put off thanking you for them till I received the enclosed 

 proof this morning. It is a real comfort to me that you can 

 approve of my little pamphlet, for I have been very anxious 

 over it, and I hope you will think sheet " D " right. I am 

 delighted to be allowed to send it to you. 



At page 33 you will see I have utilised the colouring of 

 the eyes of the Tabanidcz (Gad flies), specially for identifica- 

 tion. I do not think this point is much brought forward, and 

 I found it very useful. Many thanks for your two pam- 

 phlets and suggestion re dips. I have been studying your 

 S.S., 2 and mean to try to get a little bit into my paper as 

 an addendum. Also I want to study your " Nature Know- 

 ledge" [opening lecture to a class of teachers.] I don't 

 seem to understand this subject yet, and your address, I feel 

 sure, will help me very much. 



1 One hundred copies of Miss Ormerod's Manual of Injurious 

 Insects, were distributed gratuitously to persons specially selected 

 by us as likely to be interested in the subject matter and capable 

 of spreading a knowledge of it (ED.). 



2 Lecture at the London Farmers' Club on Sheep Scab. 



