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Our crop of wheat this year will be very short, owing to three causes, 

 . . . and which is more to be regretted, to what with us is denomin- 

 ated the Hessian Fly, which has spread devastation more or less in all 

 quarters. 



[This year is wanting in the chronological table.] 



Matth. Carey, American Museum, contains many communications and 

 is largely used by A. Fitch. Nearly all authors quoted to 1792 are re- 

 printed in full in the American Museum. 



A premium was proposed by the Philad. Soc. for Prom. Agriculture 

 for 1788 (Carey, vol. iii., p. 176) : 



" 8. For the best information, the result of actual experience, for pre- 

 venting damage to crops by insects, especially the Hessian Fly, the Wheat 

 Fly, or Fly Weevil, the Pea Bug, and the Corn Chinch-bug or Fly — a gold 

 medal ; a silver medal for the second best." 



The same premium was offered for 1789 (Carey, vol. v., p. 159), for 

 1790 (Carey, vol. vii., p. 271) and for 1791 (Carey, vol. ix , p. 170). But 

 I find nowhere mentioned that the premium was awarded. 



The remarkable, not to say extraordinary circumstance, that the excite- 

 ment during the Revolution led to entire forgetfulness of the former 

 presence of the Hessian Fly, makes it, as I believe, more important to 

 follow up as carefully as possible the literature before and after the Revo- 

 lution. I will be indeed very much indebted for the communication of 

 every fact not yet recorded. 



A. A. A. S. 



The next meeting of the A. A. A. S. will be held at Ann Arbor, Mich., 

 commencing Aug. 26th, 1885. The Entomological Club will meet at that 

 place on August 25th, 1885, according to its by-laws ; exact locahty not 

 yet determined. 



Will those members of the Club, or other Entomologists, who expect 

 to be present, please notify one of the undersigned, and also send in the 

 title of any papers they expect to read, and state the length of time they 

 expect to occupy, so that a programme can be arranged ? The exact 

 place and hour of meeting, as well as the programme so far as fixed, will 

 be published later. 



Committee : John B. Smith, Brooklyn, N. Y., Chairman; Herbert 

 OsBORN, Ames, la.; B. Pickman Mann, Washington, D. C. 



