10 PREFATORY REMARKS. 



To Surgeon General E. Balfour, 2 Oxford Square, 

 Hyde Park, W. 



INDIA OFFICE, 

 th November 1885. 



SIR, I am directed by the Secretary of State for 

 India in Council to acknowledge with thanks the receipt 

 of your letter of 28th September last, enclosing an 

 interesting communication from Miss Ormerod on the 

 subject of the insect pests of Indian crops and forests. 

 In reply, I am to inform you that a copy of this cor- 

 respondence has been forwarded to the Government of 

 India ; and that another copy of it, and of your previous 

 letter of the 8th August last, has been sent to the 

 Society of Arts, for publication in their widely circulated 

 Journal. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 



J. A. GODLEY. 



