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of note, Leopold Trovelot, who is said to 

 have been a political refugee. In connec- 

 tion with some extensive and excellent in- 

 vestigations on silk worms. Professor 

 Trovelot imported the gypsy moth and 



abundance of stern realism in this case: 

 hundreds of property owners in Eastern 

 Massachusetts will testify. From 1869 to 

 the late 8o's the moth waxed fat and in- 

 creased; the caterpillars dropedfrom in- 



PINE AND OAK WOODLAND DEVASTATED BY THE GYPSY MOTH. 

 Georgetown, Mass., July u, 1899. 



opened a Pandora's box, whose inmates 

 have not yet been entirely corraled. You 

 will concede that the metaphor, though 

 trite, is a good one; but that there is an 



fested trees on teams and were dissemi- 

 nated over some 200 square miles. In 

 t 888-89 the inhabitants of Medford and 

 adjoining towns suddenly came to a real- 



