Is it of interest to you (in case that you have not heard) to know of the decease, on the 13th of October, of Professor Josef Mik, of Vienna, after a short illness? I shall miss him, for he was a friendly colleague, and was good enough to send me a little collection of types of Tabanidæ which have been a great help.
I was rather perplexed how to name these three newly-imported species of Bruchus, but for want of a better I thought that sad-coloured bean-seed weevil, B. tristis; red-footed bean-seed weevil, B. rufipes; and red-horned bean-seed weevil, B. ruficornis [=brachialis] would do fairly.
Yours very truly.
Eleanor A. Ormerod.
Beetle and wing, magnified; line showing natural length of beetle.
FIG. 75.—“SPLINT,” OR SAP-WOOD BEETLE, SCOLYTUS PRUNI, RATZ.
To J. C. Medd, Esq., Stratton, Cirencester.
Torrington House, St. Albans,
March 12, 1900.
Dear Mr. Medd,—I am much obliged by the packet of publications regarding the work of the “Agricultural Education Committee,”[[88]] and I note excellent names in your list of members, and some excellently true observations in your four-page leaflet, “Agricultural Instruction in the Elementary School.” But it is with great difficulty that I am able to keep my own work in hand, and I have been quite unable to find time to study the other pamphlets which you have been good enough to send me, although, from their titles, I make no doubt that they contain both valuable information and suggestion.