﻿Fart 
  I 
  — 
  Insects, 
  their 
  Classification 
  

   and 
  Distribution. 
  

  

  CHAPTER 
  I. 
  

  

  INTRODUCTORY. 
  

  

  Twenty 
  years 
  ago, 
  Dr. 
  Geo. 
  H. 
  Cook, 
  then 
  State 
  Geologist 
  

   as 
  well 
  as 
  Director 
  of 
  the 
  Agricultural 
  Experiment 
  Stations, 
  

   asked 
  me 
  to 
  prepare, 
  as 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  final 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  survey 
  

   which 
  was 
  published 
  in 
  1890, 
  a 
  list 
  of 
  the 
  insects 
  known 
  to 
  

   occur 
  in 
  New 
  Jersey. 
  The 
  time 
  was 
  brief, 
  the 
  sources 
  of 
  in- 
  

   formation 
  were 
  few 
  and 
  our 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  classification 
  of 
  

   some 
  of 
  the 
  orders 
  was 
  limited. 
  That, 
  under 
  the 
  circumstances, 
  

   the 
  list 
  should 
  be 
  incomplete 
  and 
  imperfect 
  was 
  to 
  be 
  expected, 
  

   and 
  no 
  one 
  recognized 
  that 
  better 
  than 
  I. 
  Nievertheless, 
  in 
  spite 
  

   of 
  its 
  defects, 
  the 
  list 
  served 
  a 
  useful 
  purpose 
  and 
  stimulated 
  

   interest 
  beyond 
  all 
  expectation. 
  It 
  also 
  produced 
  so 
  much 
  addi- 
  

   tional 
  information 
  that, 
  in 
  1899, 
  ten 
  years 
  later, 
  the 
  State 
  Board 
  

   of 
  Agriculture 
  authorized 
  me 
  to 
  prepare 
  another 
  edition, 
  or 
  in 
  

   reality 
  a 
  new 
  ^vork, 
  which 
  was 
  published 
  in 
  1900 
  as 
  a 
  supplement 
  

   to 
  the 
  Twenty-seventh 
  Annual 
  Report. 
  

  

  In 
  this 
  second 
  edition 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  departures 
  were 
  made. 
  

   More 
  time 
  being 
  allotted 
  and 
  more 
  material 
  being 
  at 
  hand, 
  the 
  

   aid 
  of 
  specialists 
  in 
  the 
  various 
  orders 
  was 
  enlisted 
  and 
  a 
  much 
  

   more 
  complete 
  picture 
  of 
  the 
  insect 
  fauna 
  was 
  obtained. 
  Illus- 
  

   trations 
  were 
  introduced 
  and 
  an 
  attempt 
  was 
  made 
  to 
  picture 
  at 
  

   least 
  representative 
  species 
  of 
  the 
  main 
  groups. 
  And, 
  while 
  it 
  

   was 
  impossible 
  tO' 
  give 
  much 
  information 
  about 
  so' 
  many 
  species, 
  

   a 
  great 
  many 
  brief 
  notes 
  on 
  food 
  habits 
  and 
  on 
  the 
  methods 
  of 
  

   dealing 
  with 
  economic 
  species 
  were 
  incorporated. 
  

  

  The 
  publication 
  was 
  the 
  most 
  ambitious 
  faunal 
  list 
  ever 
  at- 
  

   tempted 
  in 
  the 
  United 
  States, 
  and 
  it 
  proved 
  unexpectedly 
  ac- 
  

  

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