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2. A small bottle, well corked, containing spirits of wine (whisky, gin or any other spirit will do), 
is used in which to put the insects as they are picked up. One's fingers, a small stick, or a pair of forceps 
can be used to pick them up. 
3. Care should be taken not to mix the species from different nests, for though much alike, very 
distinct species live close together. 
4. Notes accompanying the specimens and numbered to match each bottle (which should also be 
numbered when more than one is sent) giving both the outward and inward form of the nest, or other notes 
on their habits, will be of great value, and all help will be gladly acknowledged and each correspondent 
will get full credit for assistance rendered when the work is printed. 
5. Pack the bottles in a box or tin with a little wadding, so that they cannot shake about. Label 
it " Specimens of Natural History only," and send it by post. (W. W. Froggatt.) 
It will be seen presently how valuable have been Mr. Froggatt' s contributions 
to a knowledge of White Ants as the result of that campaign, but until we know the 
timbers affected by pests, and to what extent, we only know our lesson imperfectly. 
Mr. Froggatt' s work will be found in " Australian Termitidse," Part I (Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.8.W., xx, 415, 1895). (This is a preliminary paper, quoting the literature, 
and setting out the problem generally.) Part II is found op. cit., xxi, 510(1896). This 
deal* with Classification. Glyptotermes eucalypti, with Plate XXXV, figs. 5-5a, is 
found by cutting off the loose bark from Eucalyptus robusta. Part III, op. cit., xxii, 
721 (1897), is a continuation of Part II. Both Parts are illustrated. 
Then we have some popular illustrated articles by Mr. Froggatt in the Agric. 
Gazette, N.S.W., as follows : 
(a) " White Ants, with some account of their habits and depredations." Vol. 
viii, p. 297(1897). 
(6) " The White Ant City. A Nature Study." Vol. xiv, p. 726 (1903). 
(c) " White Ants (Termitidse), with suggestions for dealing with them in houses 
and orchards." Vol. xvi, p. 632 (1905). 
Then comes the admirable general account of them in his " Australian Insects," 
but let me again suggest more attention to their association with species of Eucalyptus, 
both in the living tree and in timber. 
There .is a coloured plate of Termes australis Hagen, in French's " Destructive 
Insects of Victoria," Part II. 
In Agric. Gaz. N.8.W., xxiii, 237 (19] 2), is a reference to the report of a 
committee appointed by the Indian Railway Board on the effects of White Ants on 
Sleepers of Australian timbers (Eucalyptus practically entirely) imported into India. 
The following popular account of White Ants (from a non- Australian source) 
was reprinted in my " Useful Native Plants of Australia " (1889) : 
Termites, or White Ants. Next to locusts, they may be reckoned the most destructive insects known 
to man. They live in societies, often prodigiously numerous, and, like the bee and ant, are composed 
of three sorts of individuals. In all stages of their existence, save that of the ovum, they are active, 
carnivorous or omnivorous ; and are, beyond all doubt, the greatest pest of tropical (and subtropical) 
