HALF-YEARLY REPORTS RECOMMENDED. 7 



official annual reports on the insects destructive to crops 

 and forests in India ; and to inform you in reply that a 

 copy of it has been forwarded to the Government of 

 India. I am, etc., HORACE WALPOLE. 



To Horace Wcdpole, Esq., C.B. 



2 OXFORD SQUARE, HYDE PARK, W., 

 28th September 1885. 



DEAR SIR, I sent to Miss Ormerod copy of my letter 

 of the 8th August, and copy of the Secretary of State's 

 letter of 24th instant in reply. 



I enclose now copy of the acknowledgment of these 

 which Miss Ormerod has written to me. 



I beg the favour of your submitting to Her Majesty's 

 Secretary of State that if this correspondence could be 

 printed and circulated from here, all the entomologists 

 and their entomological societies in all Europe could aid 

 in this very important investigation. There are only a 

 very few in India. I have no doubt but that I could 

 distribute usefully 200 copies. I am, etc., 



EDWARD BALFOUR. 



To Surgeon General Edward Balfour, 2 Oxford Square, W. 



DUNSTER LODGE, SPRING GROVE, ISLEWORTH, 

 25th September 1885. 



DEAR MR. BALFOUR, I am very much obliged to you 

 for favouring me with a copy of your letter to the Under 

 Secretary of State for India relative to the importance of 



