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Reports to the Foreign Office. 
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 
23rd! August , 1901. 
To Sir T. H. Sanderson, G.C.B., K.C.M.G., 
Foreign Office, Downing Street. 
Sir, — I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your letter 
of yesterday’s date enclosing a copy of a dispatch from His Majesty’s 
Acting Agent and Consul-General in Egypt relative to the ravages 
committed in the Sudan by the AVhite Ant. 
In reply I have to state that Kew is not in possession of anything but 
the most general information on the subject and is therefore unable to 
furnish any advice which would be of any practical utility to Sir Rennell 
Rodd. I have forwarded the correspondence to the Director of the 
Natural History Museum, South Kensington, and requested him to examine 
the question and communicate with you. 
I am, etc., 
(Signed) W. T. Thiselton-Dyer. 
British Museum (Nat. Hist.), 
Cromwell Road, S.W., 
1th September, 1901. 
To Sir T. H. Sanderson, G.C.B., 
Foreign Office, S.AV. 
Sir, — I am directed by Professor Ray Lankester to acknowledge 
the receipt of your letter of the 22nd ult. addressed to the Director of the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, enclosing copy of a despatch. from His Majesty’s Acting 
Agent and Consul-General in Egypt, relative to the ravages committed in 
the Sudan by the AVhite Ant. 
I am to state, for the information of the Marquess of Lansdowne, that 
Professor Ray Lankester is giving his attention to the question, and that 
he will further communicate with you in regard to the matter. 
I am, etc., 
(Signed) C. E. Fagan. 
To Sir T. H. Sanderson, G.C.B., 
Foreign Office, S.AV. 
British Museum (Nat. Hist.), 
Cromwell Road, S.W., 
5th November, 1901. 
Sir, — Referring to your letter of 22nd August last to the Director 
of the Royal Gardens, Kew, and to my acknowledgment of the 7th of 
September, relative to a despatch from His Majesty’s Acting Agent and 
Consul-General in Egypt on the subject of the ravages committed in the 
Sudan by the AVhite Ant, I have the honour to enclose herewith, for the 
information of the Marquess of Lansdowne, a report prepared by Mr. F. V. 
Theobald, of this Department, on the Termites or AVhite Ants, dealing 
generally with their prevention and destruction. 
I am, etc., 
(Signed) E. Ray Lankester. 
