136 ANNUAL REPORT. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



Second Day, Wednesday, Jan. 16th. 



The exercises were opened by music by the University Glee 

 Club. 



Mr. Mendenhall, Entomologist of the Society, read the following 

 report : 



ENTOMOLOGICAL NOTES FOB THE SEASON 



OF 1883. 



By R. J. Mendenhall, of Minneapolis. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : 



As the years roll on our State is becoming more and more 

 densely populated by a very undesirable class of immigrants; a class 

 which appropriates to its use literally the fruits of others' labor, 

 without even a civil "by your leave," and whose operations are 

 conducted in such a stealthy and irregular manner that the 

 farmer and horticulturist have no redress for the disappointments 

 And losses occasioned by it. The only law against these maraud- 

 ers is " lynch law," but the rascals are more difficult to catch and 

 more certain to reappear than were even th« Younger and James 

 boys in Missouri. It is needless to say that I refer to the annually 

 increasing numbers of destructive insects that appear in our fields 

 and gardens. 



Minnesota has her share of beetles, bugs and worms that are " to 

 the manor born," not to mention the afflicting mosquito, and all 

 its blood-thirsty kindred, but among these were very few that 



