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for the purpose: A well-arranged collection of this character, exhibiting 

 at a glance the entire life-history, habits, transformations, enemies, etc., 

 of each species, would prove both interesting and instructive to those who 

 apply in person at our rooms for information regarding some special 

 insect pest. The material for such an exhibit has been accumulating 

 during past years, and is only awaiting time for its arrangement. 



The additions made to the State Collection have not been as large as 

 those of the preceding year, from the general paucity of insect life, as 

 noticed in a following page. Their number (in part estimated) aggregates 

 about 2,000. Contributions have been received from forty-two persons 

 aggregating about eight hundred examples. 



The Tenth Report of the State Entomologist was issued in the early 

 part of July, and forms a part of the Forly-eighth Report of the State 

 Museum. An edition was also printed as separates, for convenience of 

 distribution among agriculturists and entomologists. Ihe report contains 

 300 pages, 4 plates and 24 figures. Its preparation required an imusual 

 amount of office labor from the extended index given to the ten reports 

 of the Entomologist (1883-1895), occupying 93 pages, and embracing 

 (as estimated) 20,600 references. 



The Eleventh Report of the State Entomologist for the year 1895, is 

 now being printed, and will, it is hoped, be ready for distribution before 

 the close of the present year. It will contain nearly 250 pages and 16 

 plates. 



The usual list of miscellaneous publications by the Entomologist during 

 the current year will be found in the Appendix. Forty- one titles are 

 cited with time and place ot publication, with a brief summary of each. 

 The aggregate number of such publications listed and abstracts given, in 

 the several volumes of this series of reports, including the present, is 909. 



The correspondence of the office during the year has been as follows: 

 Letters received and filed, 1119; letters sent, so far as recorded, 12 15. 



Arrangement has been made for an amount of additional shelving 

 required by the increase in the collections and library. These additions 



