No. 6. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE. 129 



KEPORT OF THE ECONOMIC ZOOLOGIST. 



Hareisburg, Pa., January 1, 1906. 

 Hon. N. B. Critchfield, Secretary of Agriculture, Ha/rrwburg r , Pa.: 



Sir: I have the honor to submit to you the Annual Report of the 

 Division of Zoology for the year 1905. As I endorse the words ex 

 pressed by President Roosevelt to the various departments of the 

 United States government in stating that an Annual Report should 

 be a business-like statement and definite account of the business of 

 the Department which is under consideration, and should not con- 

 tain new educational nor scientific material, but a resume' of what 

 had been accomplished, I offer the following. My justification for 

 this lies in the fact that our Bulletins, both periodical and special, 

 have given us a fair avenue of publication, and the law permits 

 several times as many of these to be printed as Annual Reports. 

 Therefore, the results of our investigations and experiments which 

 should be published in detail and made practical will reach more 

 persons who need them when published in Bulletins than when 

 published in the form of a report. 



In our Monthly Bulletin for May, 1903, Vol. J, No. 1, we announced 

 that among our important undertakings would be the following: 



1. Examining specimens and answering questions sent us. 



2. Personal work: Investigation and experimentation. 



3. Publication. 



4. Lectures. 



5. Inspection of nurseries and private premises. 



6. Inspection of imported plants, seeds and fruits. 



7. Making collections. 



1. SPECIMENS SENT. 



During the past year we have made many accessions to the col- 

 lections, and while most of these have been collected by our own 

 collectors and representatives from this office, a great many of 

 them have been contributed by persons in various parts of the 

 State, especially noticeable among the donations is a collection of 

 mounted birds and mammals by Dr. M. W. Raub, of Lancaster, and 

 a very large, remarkably handsome and well prepared collection 

 of insects by the same gentleman, which has been bequeathed to us 

 on the one conditon that we take proper care of it and use it in 

 advancing the work in which we are engaged. Other persons making 

 donations are Rev. M. Wirtner, of Jeannette, Pa., who donated a 

 large and carefully prepared collection of the Heteroptera or "True 

 Bugs" of Western Pennsylvania; Mr. George, of York. Pa., donated 

 a collection of mounted birds and mammals prepared by himself; 

 Mr. D. C. Heim. of Sunbury, Pa., who contributed a valuable collec- 

 tion of butterflies from his region; Prof. C. F. Laurie, of the Erie 



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