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onl}' in oui- own State, butalso from almost every State in the Union 

 and also from foreign countries. 



(b.) The Zoological Quarterly. — This is a bulletin devoted pri- 

 marily to the exploitation of the economic features of our native 

 Vertebrates. In it I have commenced a discussion of the value of 

 our native birds, and the methods of preserving those that are bene- 

 ficial, and avoiding loss by those that may at times be destructive. 

 This discussion will be continued according to the scientific sequence 

 of the orders and families of our native fauna until we have dis- 

 cussed in a systematic manner all of the birds. We hope to issue 

 similar publications upon the mammals, the reptiles and other 

 Vertebrates. This Quarterly Bulletin has been sent to all of those 

 persons who have received the monthly bulletins, and its circulation 

 has, consequently, been the same, or over 24,000 per quarter. We 

 have been fortunate in being able to issue these publications practi- 

 cally upon time. This is due to the aid of Mr. W. S. Ray, State 

 Printer, who has done his part toward serving our citizens promptly. 



(c.) Brief Articles for Periodicals. — We have written many short 

 articles for publication upon the subjects pertaining to this office, 

 and the newspapers throughout the State have given a very great 

 amount of space to reviews of our bulletins and the publication of 

 extracts from the same. In fact I wish to pay a tribute to the 

 many intelligent editors of our State by saying that the work of 

 this office could never have reached its present proportions and 

 .usefulness without the cordial co-operation and support which we 

 have received from them. 



(7.) ADDRESSES OR LECTURESj 



A great portion of the work of this office has been to deliver 

 public addresses upon topics pertaining to entomology, ornithol- 

 ogy and general zoology, as well as on spraying, plant diseases, 

 etc. Most of the meetings which we have attended have been 

 Farmers' Institutes, in co-operation with Hon. A. L. Martin, 

 Dejiuty Secretary and Director of Institutes, but we have also 

 spoken at the meetings of farmers' clubs, granges* alliances, 

 teachers' meetings, meetings of the boards of school directors, scien- 

 tific clubs, schools and other educational and agricultural assem- 

 blies, as well as before the Pennsylvania State Horticultural Asso- 

 ciation, the State Board of Agriculture, the Annual Meeting of the 

 Farmers' Institute Managers and Lecturers and Teachers' Insti- 

 tutes. We have averaged about two lectures per week during the 

 entire year. This has been an efficient means of explaining the sub- 

 jects pertaining to our profession, and the citizens have uniformly 

 appeared gratified with the kind of services that have thus been 

 rendered them by the Division of Zoology of the Department of 

 Agriculture. 

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