Yours truly,
Eleanor A. Ormerod.
To Dr. Enzio Reuter, Helsingfors, Finland.
Torrington House, St. Albans, England,
October 15, 1894.
Sir,—In acknowledging receipt of your obliging letter of the 8th of October, received here on the 12th, permit me to say that I think it not only a pleasure, but an honour, to be in communication with the leading Entomologists who, like yourself, are working for the good of their countries. I thank you much for your letter.
First, about the Cecidomyia (Wheat midge) larvæ (fig. [62]) on the Alopecurus pratensis[[81]] (Foxtail grass), I cannot remember that any further observations were sent me about it, nor have I noticed anything in publications which come to my hands. My correspondents often send me specimens and details of some infestation which has caught their attention, but it is with the greatest difficulty in many instances that I can induce them to continue their observations for successive seasons, and the development of the imagines of the Cecidomyiæ from the early condition is much more trouble than they care to take.
By book post accompanying this letter I forward to your kind acceptance a copy of my seventeenth Report. In the pages of the Report I have placed copies of various leaflets. These, you will see at a glance, are not at all scientific, but intended quite for popular use by our farmers, therefore I have used the very simplest words I could.
You are good enough to offer to send me copies of some of your future reports in connection with Economic Entomology. If you can spare them I should value them very much. For although I am not able to understand more than a word here and there, yet with the help of the dictionary I can make out enough to see whether your information is applicable to the conditions here, and I can get a good translation made for me. I can read German and French, but I am sorry not to be able to write with ease in either language.
November 21, 1894.