314 LETTERS TO PROFESSOR WALLACE [CHAP. xxvi. 



I feel much pleasure (not to say relief) at results of our 

 " Reminiscence " work, and at all those papers being safely 

 lodged in your hands. 



P.S. I am working steadily on the twenty-fourth 

 Report, but if a bit [of " Reminiscences "] comes into my 

 head (the " awen," as the Welsh say), I mean to put down 

 the ideas. 



December 5, 1900. 



Here comes such a long story [here cut short] about the 

 " Reminiscences." I hope it will not be quite too tedious, 

 but really I think we are thriving. 



A messenger has just been down from London, and carried 

 off material for ten illustrations. 



The materials for letterpress are appearing fairly out of 

 holes and corners also, the chief prize a book of Memoranda 

 for 1891, by my sister Georgiana, giving numbers of dates 

 of my letters, &c. 



I was glad to see the " Creameries " 1 in the " Times," and 

 glad to see also that it was properly placed at the top of the 

 column. I thought you wrote very firmly and well. 



P.S. I have not sent [copies of the Manual] (though 

 you kindly said I might) to the Clubs. I have not the 

 courage ; so many of the members might not care for 

 Economic Entomology. 



December 15, 1900. 



I think I am being very good ! in seldom letting the 

 "Reminiscences" meddle really with work, but rest time 

 (wet afternoons) helps. One thing more, I remembered I 

 had a part given me by my mother of my father's " queue " 

 (Anglice, " pigtail") cut off in the year of their marriage, 

 1808, and I think this might come in nicely. 



December 21, 1900. 



I quite forgot to thank you for your Indian Examination 

 questions, 2 which was wrong of me, for I like very much to 

 have all the information they point to, though I am afraid 

 there are scarcely two I could answer. 



January 18, 1901. 



My account of myself is I am fairly well all but rheu- 

 matism ; only, last Saturday the disaster happened of a 

 blood-vessel breaking in my left eye. These affairs seem 



1 A letter written to defend the position of the Board of Agriculture 

 for Ireland against an unwarranted attack of a Cork correspondent 

 of the London "Times" (ED.) 



* The first examination paper set in connection with the " Garton " 

 course of lectures (ED.). 



