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starting point for a library. Now, it seems to me that we ought 

 no longer delay the starting of a library and in connection with it 

 a museum, Avhere should be collected and kept everything that is 

 interesting and useful in our horticulture, as we cannot at present 

 erect suitable rooms for the purpose. Will it not be advisable to 

 create a committee to conter with the Governor of the State or 

 with the Regents of the University to ascertain if we can have the 

 use of rooms at the Capitol or in the College of Agriculture to use 

 for that purpose. If we cannot have rooms in one or the other 

 place we should, as soon as practical, take steps towards building a 

 Horticultural Hall. Our last volume of transactions is not entirely 

 satisfactory to us. It should have been published and distributed 

 within ninety days after the adjournment of the annual meeting, 

 and the matter is crowded into much too few pages to make an 

 attractive book. It is lacking also in some features which we may 

 be able to correct in the future that would add greatly to its use- 

 fulness. I refer particularly to a Secretary's portfolio and a depart- 

 ment on Entomolog3\ I believe that our Secretary-elect, Mr. Hol- 

 lister, intended to introduce the Portfolio after the form of the 

 Michigan and some other Societies, but business called him out of 

 the State at an unfortunate time for us, and when the present act- 

 ing-secretary was appointed it was too late to do more than get our 

 manuscript into the State Printers' hands. I do not believe that 

 our Legislature intended to appropriate for the purpose a sum in- 

 adequate to cover the expense of printing 300 pages therefor. I 

 recommend the appointment of a committee on printing to ascer- 

 tain the cost of printing 300 pages, in accordance with the Act of 

 1881, Chapter 72, General Laws, and if it should be found that 

 $750 is inadequate to cover the expense that we ask of the present 

 Legislature an additional appropriation sufficient to meet the entire 

 cost. 



ENTOMOLOGY. 



Insects are continuing to commit their ravages in this State and 

 each 3^ear are becoming more destructive. The Horticulturists are 

 suffering severely. Wormy fruits are the rule and fair fruits the 

 exception. Their trees are frequently defoliated by caterpillars. 

 Beetles and moths have combined against us, and we want more 

 information about them, that we may be able to recognize our ene- 

 mies, and know how to head them off. I suggest that this society 

 elect an etomologist, and that it be a part of his duty to compile 

 and report matter upon the subject to be published in our annual 



