Meanwhile I have been learning a great deal from your “Notes on the Mosquitoes of the United States.” It is a great gratification to me to possess this valuable work, and my medical adviser, Dr. Lipscomb, is only waiting until I can spare it, to borrow it for his own perusal. With kind regards and good wishes and grateful thanks for all your kind help and encouragement, pray believe me,
Yours very sincerely,
Eleanor A. Ormerod.
CHAPTER XIX
LETTERS TO DR. J. FLETCHER
General references to insect infestation—Progress of Economic Entomology—Success in using Paris-green in Britain—End of work done for the Board of Agriculture and Royal Agricultural Society of England.
The series of selected letters to Dr. Fletcher in this and the succeeding chapter is the most comprehensive of the remnants of Miss Ormerod’s correspondence with distant scientific authorities. Although only a portion of the original group of letters, it ranges over a period of fourteen years, and touches, sometimes only lightly, a great many of the leading objects of interest which had specially engaged her attention. Some phases of character come out here more conspicuously than in any other part of the volume. The mutual confidence in business matters which speedily established itself developed in this, as in most other instances, into intimate personal friendship.
To Dr. J. Fletcher, Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa, Canada.
Dunster Lodge, Spring Grove, Isleworth, England,
February 4, 1886.