[100]. “On the Production of New Breeds of Crop Plants by Multiple Cross-fertilization.”

[101]. A suggestion that Dr. MacDougall should collaborate with Miss Ormerod in bringing out the book.

[102]. Messrs. Knight, one or other, have been my artists for many years. I should like the printing to be, as usual, in the hands of Messrs. West, Newman & Co. Mr. T. P. Newman has superintended my printing for so many years. (E. A. O.)

[103]. Professor James Seth delivered the address to student graduates at the ceremonial at which Miss Ormerod received the LL.D.

[104]. One hundred copies of Miss Ormerod’s Manual of Injurious Insects, were distributed gratuitously to persons specially selected by us as likely to be interested in the subject matter and capable of spreading a knowledge of it (Ed.).

[105]. Lecture at the London Farmers’ Club on Sheep Scab.

[106]. Tessarotoma papillosa, Dravy. (O. E. J.)

[107]. We were at the time actually at war with China, although nominally the united Powers of Europe were fighting the Boxers.

[108]. A digest of the Indian Famine Commission Reports down to October, 1898, read as the Inaugural Address on the opening of the course of “Garton Lectures” on Colonial and Indian Agriculture. Published by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.

[109]. A copy of Quasi Cursores, portraits of the high officials and professors of the University of Edinburgh and its Tercentenary Festival. Drawn and etched by William Hole, A.R.S.A. David Douglas, Edinburgh, 1884.