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PREFACE. 



ENTOMOLOGY 

 LIBRARY 



IN issuing a Fifth Report on the Injurious Insects and other 

 Animals of the Midland Counties of England, received from various 

 correspondents during the year 1907, it is again my pleasant duty to 

 acknowledge a Grant of 10 from the County Councils of Derbyshire, 

 Leicestershire, and Warwickshire, aiding the publication of this Report. 



As a Report on the Injurious Animals of the Midland Counties, 

 this will be the last I shall issue. As is well known, I have felt 

 compelled to resign my position in the University of Birmingham owing 

 to the lack of adequate financial support and remuneration. Since that 

 date I have been offered and have accepted the Directorship of the 

 Cooper Research Laboratory, Berkhamsted, where, with a full and 

 capable staff, a wider field for work presents itself, but my services will 

 be as freely at the command of Midland agriculturists and fruit-grow r ers 

 as in the past. 



Further Reports will be of a more comprehensive nature, and 

 will include accounts of Injurious Fungi, Animal Parasites, and Animal 

 Diseases, in addition to the subjects dealt with in the present series 

 of Reports. 



It is my privilege and pleasant duty to once again tender my 

 thanks to that large band of Midland agriculturists and horticulturists, 

 who have so willingly afforded me assistance, and to whom, I trust, I 

 shall continue to be of some service in return. 



I am indebted to the courtesy of the Controller of His 

 Majesty's Stationery Office and the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture 

 and Fisheries for permission to use Figures 4, 7, and 9, all of which are 

 from illustrations which have appeared in the Board's leaflets. 



WALTER E. COLLINGE. 



THE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC ZOOLOGY, 



55, XEWHALL STREET, BIRMINGHAM, 

 January jrs/, 190$. 



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