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B. H. Coates published five papers in 1841 on the Hessian fly. 



Miss Margaretta H. Morris began to write on entomological topics 

 in 1841 and continued until i860. Her writings were for the most 

 part popular and not very well founded, although she was looked 

 upon at the time as an authority. 



Willis Gaylord in 1843, i^'^ ^he Transactions of the New York State 

 Agricultural Society, published a rather pretentious work covering 

 nearly 50 pages, with three plates, under the title "A Treatise on 

 Insects Injurious to Field Crops, Fruit Orchards, Vegetable Gardens, 

 and Domestic Animals ; With a Description of Each and the Best 

 Methods of Destroying Them or Preventing Their Ravages." Some 

 50 species are considered in this work. It seems to be little more than 

 a good compilation from Say, Kollar, Harris, and a few others and 

 from such papers as had been published in the American Journal of 

 Science, the New England Farmer, the old Genesee Farmer and the 

 Albany Cultivator, although in his preface the author states that he 

 has added such corroborative or original facts " as the experience 

 and observation of some 40 years spent on a farm may have afforded. " 

 The illustrations are fairly good, but there seems to be nothing novel 

 in the way of remedial suggestions. 



The next writer to appear on the entomological horizon was no 

 less a person than Dr. Asa Fitch, of New York, a man who played a 

 great part in the development of the science in America. In 1845 ^i^ 

 first paper, entitled " Insects Injurious to Vegetation, No. i," was 

 published in the Quarterly Journal of Agricultural Science, and four 

 subsequent articles under the same title were published in the same 

 journal during the next two years. These and subsequent articles 

 attracted much attention, and in 1854 he became the first State Ento- 

 mologist. His work and his influence were so important that a fuller 

 account is reserved for later pages. 



In 1847, S. S. Haldeman, a very competent naturalist, published 

 his first paper on economic entomology, in which he treated of the 

 habits and ravages of Agrilus ruficollis. 



In the saine year Edmond Rufiin, a Virginian and a man of vision 

 and high rank in agriculture, wrote upon the Angoumois grain moth 

 in the American Agriculturist. 



In 1850 another excellent entomologist appears. Dr. J. A. LeBaron, 

 afterwards a very prolific writer and the second State Entomologist 

 of Illinois, published in the Prairie Farmer for September, 1853, 

 some " Observations upon Two Species of Insects Injurious to Fruit 

 Trees." In this paper he gave a description and an account of the 

 injuries of Tcttigonia inali, and an account of the history of the leaf- 



