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quired concerning the insects of Maine. During the first 

 eleven years the late Professor F. L. Harvey recorded orchard 

 and garden pests which are still valuable for reference. His 

 special studies of the Two-spotted Mite, the Currant and Goose- 

 berry Fly, a Garden Smynthurid, Injurious Millipedes, an Inju- 

 rious Caddice-fly, and the Carrot Rust Fly are among those 

 contributions that contain new observations of real importance. 

 Most significant, however, is his monograph on the Apple Mag- 

 got which remains the classic work on this insect, no one having 

 since been able to do more than verify the facts of this excel- 

 lent piece of work. 



Under the supervision of Dr. Giliuan A. Drew who was 

 connected with the Station from 1900-1903 three bulletins of 

 true scientific merit were issued ; — two on The Grass Thrips 

 and Plant House Aleyrodes by Lewis R. Cary and one on 

 The Chinch P)Ug in Maine by H. \V. Britcher. 



The initial tour of investigation (1904-05) as to the extent of 

 infestation of the P'rowntail moth in Maine and beginning of 

 the campaign of instruction against this pest was undertaken 

 by the Station through the sanction and aid of the State Com- 

 missioner of Agriculture. 



The ofiicial connection of Miss Patch with the Station dates 

 from July 1904 at which time the Department of Entomology 

 was organized, which five years later was reinforced by Dr. 

 Johannsen. Aside from several hundred more or less brief 

 records of important insects of Maine (contained in annual 

 bulletins called "Insect Notes") the recent insect work of the 

 Station comprises special field, insectary and laboratory studies 

 some of which might be mentioned in particular. The serious 

 though local need of help against the Cottony Grass Scale 

 was met by a field study which resulted in the effectual remedy 

 given in bulletin on that meadow pest (1905). The rather 

 sensational outbreak of the Strawberry Crown Girdler (1905) 

 led to a study of the beetle in Maine and the publication of a 

 bulletin upon it. An account of the Potato Plant Louse (1906) 

 was the outcome of a season's field work in Aroostook County. 

 A bulletin on The, Saddled Prominent Caterpillar (1908) is a 

 record of a phenomenal attack on Maine trees by a usually in- 

 significant insect. 



