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eral management and for special treatment directed to the pre- 

 vention or arrest of such injuries. 



Most of these articles are now issued first as bulletins of the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, in an edition of 50,000 copies, 

 an additional thousand copies being run off in form for sub- 

 sequent binding as the biennal report of the entomologist. 

 By this arrangement the entomologist has the benefit of the 

 mailing list and the postal frank of the Experiment Station, of 

 which he is in fact the Consulting Entomologist by formal ap- 

 pointment, and is able also to get his finished papers at once 

 distributed, without waiting for the completion of his entire re- 

 port. 



While the lines of work represented by these two closely 

 affiliated state departments of scientific investigation have been 

 carried forward frequently under many difficulties, due largely 

 to the fact that their constituencies were unorganized or imper- 

 fectly organized, and hence could not exert their proper influ- 

 ence in favor of their own interests, this condition has now vir- 

 tually disappeared in the State Horticultural Society, in the 

 State Farmers' Institute, in the State Association of Florists, 

 and other like organizations, and now in the State Commission 

 for the Conservation of our Natural Resources, and especially in 

 the Illinois Academy of Science, we have active, powerful, 

 public-spirited agencies which can be relied upon to promote 

 every good work of this description with their endorsement, 

 with their aid, with their judicious criticism of its aims, plans, 

 and methods ; and the next ten years will, in my judgment, see 

 greater progress than the last twenty-five in the advancement 

 of a useful knowledge of the State of Illinois, set forth in 

 such forms as to make it available for the educational and 

 economic welfare of its people. 



