Beetle, natural size and magnified; maggot, magnified, and natural size on leaf.
FIG. 51.—MUSTARD BEETLE, PHÆDON BETULÆ, LINN.
May 22, 1893.
I only knew as a fact a very little while ago that Professor Riley was standing for the post of “Hope Professor of Zoology” at Oxford, vacant by the death of our grand old friend Professor Westwood. Mr. Hachett-Jackson (Professor Westwood’s assistant, I believe) wrote to me very urgently from Keble College, and I responded most heartily, mentioning everything I could think of that might assist Professor Riley’s election. It would have been a benefit to myself past hoping for to have a really great Entomologist like Professor Riley in a definite post over here. The magician’s rod would have beaten all kinds of underhand misrepresentations, scientific and practical, out of the field. Anyway I fear that Professor Riley has hardly a chance, and indeed I wonder that he should contemplate changing his grand central position—central to the whole world—for such a very inferior post without genial colleagues around him.
By book post accompanying I send a copy of Mons. J. Danysz’s paper on Ephestia (Flour moth), to your kind acceptance, in case you have not yet seen it; you will be interested to run it over and see his views of Pyrethrum. I very much doubt whether we could get our millers to try it, but it would be different with you.
CHAPTER XX
LETTERS TO DR. J. FLETCHER (continued) AND TO DR. BETHUNE
Foreign correspondents—Book by Dr. Nalepa—Efforts to endow Agricultural lectures at Oxford or Cambridge—Literary productions—Sympathetic communications.
The letters addressed to Dr. Fletcher after his visit to Miss Ormerod and her sister Georgiana at St. Albans have here been grouped, as a matter of convenience, with letters to the Rev. Dr. C. J. S. Bethune, another Canadian Entomologist, who held a high place in Miss Ormerod’s esteem, both as a man of science and as a sympathetic friend in whom to confide in times of sorrow.
To Dr. J. Fletcher, Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa, Canada.
Torrington House, St. Albans,