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cold weather shall have allayed the ravages of the disease. Such being the 

 case, it will be useless for you to attempt to bring any insects alive 

 through the treatment to which everything and everybody will be sub- 

 jected upon entering this country, so that it will be necessary for you to ar- 

 range to have these insects sent here after the quarantine regulations are 

 changed. In fact, it may be difficult and dangerous for you to sail until 

 cold weather shall have allayed the virulence of the attack in the Eu- 

 ropean cities. My advice to you would be to keep out of the large cities, 

 and if the cholera should spread rapidly in Germany, which it may do for 

 a few weeks, it would bd best for you to go to some village out in the 

 mountains where you can live cheaply and at the same time be free from 

 danger of infection. 



I am not particularly uneasy about you, as I feel that you will take 

 pains to avoid the disease, but I am convinced that so far as your being 

 able to import any insects at present is concerned, your trip will be a fail- 

 ure, and that all you can do will be to arrange to have the insects sent to 

 you later. * * * Trusting that you may be successful, and that you 

 may avoid all dangers, I remain, 



(Signed) JOHN A. MYERS, Director. 



After due consideration of the matter I decided to go in- 

 to Switzerland and remain for a time in the Alps, where 

 I felt safe from the disease and at the same time, obtain much 

 needed rest and recreation. I spent the greater part of the day, 

 which was Sunday, with Oberforester Eichhoff, and upon re- 

 turning to my hotel, found a package from Director Schaufuss, 

 containing 185 examples of the Clerid. This accession to the 

 collection made a total of something over 1058 examples of the 

 Clerid collected to date (Sept. 11.) Some 50 examples had 

 died from injuries, leaving a little over 1,000 living examples 

 which were in first class condition. 



TEN DAYS IN SWITZERLAND. 



After writing to Director Schaufuss and Mr. Strahmeyer in- 

 forming them of the change in my plans, and notifying them 

 to cease collecting Clerids until further notice, I proceeded by 

 rail up the valley of the Rhine to Luzerne ? in Switzerland, 

 where I arrived in the evening of Sept. the 12th. 



I remained in Switzerland until September the 24th, visiting 

 the various points of interest between Luzerne and Berne, but- 

 spending the greater part of the time in the Lauterbrunnen Val- 

 ley in company with Dr. Hillgard, the Director of the California 

 Experiment Station and party, including his family, which I 

 had the pleasure of meeting at Grindlewald. 



Among the many interesting features of my stay in Switzer- 



