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[N.S.] 
felt the want of more specific information regarding the Loran- 
thacee of India and the damage caused by them. Perhaps 
your notes will lead to some Forest Officer taking up the general 
question and giving us a complete monograph on me subject. 
It is a very interesting, and I should say, valuable o 
I am in hopes that as: opis note on what sac al the a 
pearance of becoming a serious menace to the oak forests of the 
Himalaya may ne to Satkher ebro" into the botanical 
aspects of the case. The insect ae of the trees I trust to be 
able to keep under pecan pre myse 
To His Honour the Lieu steien: oe Sir John ar 
nally, at the commencement of my investigations, taking me 
lai latter and showing me numbers of infested trees. 
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