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Official Publications. 



tapeworms in sheep, &c. The majority of these reports, when 

 of general interest to agriculturists, have been already published 

 either in full or summarised in this Journal. 



Four leaflets on insects were prepared and 3 1 were revised by 

 the Museum for the Board. 



Numerous correspondents wrote directly to the British 

 Museum for advice on various subjects, and the replies to these 

 form the second part of the report. Among these are reports on 

 mosquitoes at Blackheath, horse worms, depluming scabies in 

 fowls, various insect pests on fruit trees, flowers, forest trees, &c. 

 This section also includes a detailed report on the various species 

 of daddy longlegs, or crane flies. 



The information supplied to the Foreign and Colonial Offices, 

 which forms the third section of the report, comprises amongst 

 other subjects correspondence concerning the tsetse fly, white 

 ants and locusts in the Soudan, the marine resources of the 

 West Indies, and the Ceylon Pearl Fisheries. 



In connection with the work on economic zoology, it may 

 be pointed out that there are on exhibition at the Natural 

 History Museum numerous cases illustrating the life history of 

 various animals important to man, including models showing the 

 injury caused to farm and fruit crops by insects, &c. 



