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The second report again takes up fruit insects, and considers the 

 Lepidopterous enemies and the rose bug. It also includes a chapter 

 on forest tree insects and a long chapter on the chinch bug ; also a 

 beginning of the study of insects injurious to wheat and small grains. 

 This second report covers 148 pages. It contains, as did the first 

 report, only a very few poor and small woodcuts. 



Later these first two reports were published independently in a 

 bound volimie and issued by an Albany printer, one edition as least 

 containing four lithograph plates. 



The third report includes more concise accounts of a large number 

 of insects, classified according to their damage to fruit trees, to forest 

 trees, to meadow grasses, to grain and other field crops, to the kitchen 

 garden, to the flower garden and greenhouse, to domestic animals, 

 and to man himself and his stored property. At least this is the out- 

 line he gives in his letter of transmittal. This letter of transmittal 

 is of especial interest in that it points out to what an extraordinary 

 extent insects afifect humanity. In view of the efiforts that have been 

 made of late years to impress people with this fact, the following sen- 

 tence from this letter of transmittal is very significant : 



Many things which are most interesting and remarkable are brought to my 

 view, in the researches in which I am occupied, and I sometimes think there 

 is no kind of mischief going on in the world of nature around us but that some 

 insect is at the bottom of it. 



The fourth report was shorter, and less time was taken in its prepa- 

 ration and in the gathering of data to be included. It considered 

 for the main part insects injurious to evergreen forest trees ; and its 

 bulk is devoted to the insects of pine, brief consideration being given 

 to hemlock, spruce, fir, cedar, juniper, and larch. The report covered 

 only 67 pages and was not illustrated. 



On the third report, for the first time is printed the statement that 

 the copyright had been secured to the author. 



The fifth report considers principally insects infesting deciduous 

 forest trees, and the bulk is devoted to oak insects, some considera- 

 tion being also given to locust, elm, poplar, and birch. This report 

 covers 74 pages, with a few simple woodcut illustrations showing 

 insect work. 



In the sixth report (published in 1861) Fitch takes up what is 

 perhaps his most important work, which is on insects afifecting grow- 

 ing grains. At that time the wheat midge (now no longer considered 

 a serious crop pest in this country) was exciting great alarm in the 

 eastern States, and the first 87 pages of the report are devoted to its 

 consideration. He states that the insect was probably introduced in 



