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Extracts from the Mmtites. 



1768, May 18. Com. on husbandry to consider whether any method 

 can be fallen upon for preventing the damage done to wheat by the 

 Hessian Fly. [AT B. — Mr. DiiHamel has written on the subject.] 



176S, June 21. Paper on the Hessian Fly read by Dr. Bond ; ordered 

 to be published. See No. 4, original papers. 



1768, Oct. 1 8. Col. Landon Carter, Sabine Hill, Va. Observations 

 on the fly weevil destructive to wheat ; ordered to be published. [Is 

 published in Vol. I. of the Transactions of the society. Cf. Harris, Injur. 

 Ins., pp. 502. Dr. H. A. H.] 



1791, April 15. Jefferson, Dr. Barton, Hutchinson, Thomson and 

 Dr. Wistar, a committee to collect materials for forming the natural 

 history of the Hessian Fly, and the best means for its prevention and 

 destruction. [Do not find this committee ever reported. H. P.] 



1 79 1, Aug. 19. Memoir on Hessian Fly by T. L. Mitchell, of Long 

 Island, read. 



Everybody conversant with our actual knowledge and the literature 

 on the Hessian Fly, will acknowledge it to be excusable that I took the 

 liberty to again ask Mr. Phillips if by chance the year 1768, together with 

 the name Hessian Fly, was not a clerical error ; the more so, as Mr. 

 Morgan, in Dobson's Encyclop. (vol. viii., p. 491), states, "The name 

 of Hessian Fly was gven to this insect by myself and a friend early after 

 its first appearance on Long Island." 



I received from Mr. Phillips the following letter, dated April i, 

 1884:— 



1. 1768 is not an error. It occurs in the proper place in the old MS. 

 vol., and there can be no doubt about the fact. Similiter the words 

 Hessian Fly. 



The term came in use in Pennsylvania from the early German 

 immigrants long before the revolution. I am sure the term occurs in our 

 Pennsylvania gazettes long prior to that period. 



2. Cannot say if that pap^r (of Dr. Bond) was ever published. Pos- 

 sibly in some gazette pro bono publico. There is no clerical error as to 

 the date and name. 



Dobson is certainly incorrect in the statement you quote. [Mr. 

 Morgan's pretension to have given the name Hessian Fly. Dr. H. A. H.l 



At this writing it is not an easy matter for me to verify my own state- 

 ment as to the communications which I have seen in the early Pennsyl- 



