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resolution offering these prizes, adopted at the last annual meeting, is as 

 follows : 



Resolved, That this Society offer to the students of the State Industrial University, 

 two prizes ; one of ten dollars, and one of five dollars, for the best and second best col- 

 lections of insects — to be exhibited at the annual meeting in Champaign, in December, 

 1873 — each collection to be accompanied by a paper on some species of insects, injurious 

 or beneficial. 



Your committee have found no difficulty in deciding who were enti- 

 tled to the prizes offered. We found many beautiful collections of insects, 

 showing that many of the students had taken great interest in the study 

 of entomology, both practical and scientific ; but in some instances the 

 collections show plainly that they were made as a mere matter of recrea- 

 tion or pastime ; these, as well as some others, showing plainly that the 

 collectors did not understand or appreciate the reason for offering these 

 prizes, to-wit : the promotion of practical and scientific entomology, and 

 a love for the study of natural history generally. 



Your committee are unanimous in awarding the first prize to P. 

 Gennardius, a native of Greece, a student in the University, and also a 

 close student of nature. This collection is very extensive for the time 

 taken in making it ; the specimens are well mounted, scientifically classi- 

 fied in their proper orders and families, and, for the most part, correctly 

 named. The paper presented by this competitor we think worthy of con- 

 sideration by this Society, and a credit to its author ; and would recom- 

 mend its publication in its transactions, as we feel that this Society should 

 do all it can to encourage Mr. Gennardius in his investigations in this 

 branch of natural history. It should first be revised by some competent 

 entomologist, and we recommend its return to Mr. G. to be corrected in 

 some important points, by the aid of proper advice, and forwarded to our 

 Secretary in time for publication. 



Coliection by Walter E. Knibloe. — To this we would award the second 

 prize. In this collection we find an artificial arrangement of species ; 

 that is, they are not properly classified, and this should not be encouraged 

 in any student in entomology. The specimens had been nicely handled 

 and mounted, making very pretty office, or even parlor ornaments, and 

 were, for the most part, correctly named. The paper accompanying this 

 collection is very faulty, both scientifically and practically. 



Several other collections shown were nicely mounted, but artificially 

 and fancifully arranged, nearly all of them being of no scientific interest, 

 though very pretty ornaments. 



Your committee would say to these several collectors, that the purely 

 ornamental arrangement of insects, though a very pleasant pastime, per- 

 haps, and not entirely to be discouraged, yet we think the time of the 

 students in our Industrial University can be more profitably expended in 

 a thoroughly scientific classification of insects, as far as they go, and a 

 thorough study of their habits. 



D. B. WIER, ") 



JONA. HUGGINS, - Committee. 



E. DAGGY. ) 



