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Watson Clieyue. These lectures and demonstrations are very 
valuable to the students, and liiglily appreciated by them. The 
attendant expenses were defrayed out of the annual grant made 
by the Society to the College. 
By an arrangement between the College and the Veterinary 
Committee carcasses or parts of carcasses of animals which are 
suspected to have died from poison are for the future to be sent 
to the Koyal Veterinary College for examination and chemical 
analysis instead of to the Society's Laboratory at Hanover 
Square, and the fees have been at the same time considerably 
reduced. It is hoped that this will result in an increase in the 
number of specimens sent for examination. 
XVI. — Annual Eejiort for 1888 of the Consulting Entomolofjint, 
icitlb additional details from precious reports, respecting 
some of the most injurious Insect Attaclis of the past Season. 
By Eleanor A. Okmerod, F.R.M.S., Torrington House, 
St. Albans. 
During the past season enormous and quite unusual amount of 
harm has been caused by insect attack to orchard fruit trees of 
various kinds, such as apple, cherry, nut, and plum. The 
notices of attack which were sent me were from most of the 
chief fruit-gi'owing counties, namely, Gloucestershire, Hereford- 
shire, Worcestershire, and Shropshire, also from Kent and 
Surrey ; but I had none from Devon or Somersetshire. 
Fig. 1. Fig. 2. 
The " Zuoper caterpillar. C/teimatoLiic Irtimnta. M'inter moth, 
male and zvtiiff less female. 
Apple blossom buds liave been destroyed to a serious extent 
by the apple blossom weevil ; great damage to orchard leaf and 
of various kinds was caused by one of the small green leaf 
weevils at Sharsted, near Sittingbourne, Kent ; but the greatest 
harm appears to have been done by "Looper" caterpillars 
(Fig. 1), and mainly by those of the " winter moth " (Fig. 2), 
sometimes known as the Evesham moth. 
