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PREFACE. 
For myself (as I have mentioned in the Preface to my 
Twenty-second Annual Report), so long as health sufficient for the 
work is granted me, and I am honoured by being asked to assist, 
it is only a pleasure to me to endeavour to do my very best, 
and I hope to continue to publish yearly results, but with a little 
difference in the plan, so that I may utilize short notes of useful 
means of prevention and remedy sent me, in a separate section 
following the body of the Report, and under a distinctive heading. 
Thus I hope we may gather up all information sent, but without 
encumbering the Reports with repetition of figure and description , 
save where necessary. With these slight differences (and all 
being well) I propose to commence a new issue as a “ Second 
Series.” 
With regard to assistance in the work, which is increasingly 
becoming more than can be dealt with by one person, I have 
much help in secretarial matters from my resident lady secretary, 
Miss Hartwell; but in much press of application and occasional 
illness in the past year, I have found need of a scientific ento¬ 
mological colleague to whom, in order to save delay, I might 
apply as occasion required, to give desired information to appli¬ 
cants, and also who would oblige me by co-operation in extreme 
cases of minute microscopic investigation. 
I have therefore, through the kind courtesy of Mr. Robert 
Newstead, Fellow of the Entomological Society, Curator of the 
Grosvenor Museum, Chester (who has for some years contributed 
from time to time information of valuable interest to my series 
of Annual Reports, and by whom the accompanying Index has 
been compiled), made arrangements with him which, by per¬ 
mitting me to communicate with him if occasion arises, remove 
my fear of difficulties occurring on the above heads, and give me 
great satisfaction, as I have long been acquainted with his 
careful insect investigations, and his great powers of microscopic 
observation and delineation, for examples of which I may refer 
to the forthcoming volumes on Coccidce , prepared by him for 
publication by the Ray Society. 
ELEANOR A. ORMEROD, F.E.S. 
Torrington House, St. Albans : 
October , 1899. 
