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under provisions of said chapter 95 of the Acts of the year 

 1890 shall be delivered into the custody of said Board, and 

 said Board is authorized to take, receive and use the same 

 for the purposes of this act."' Sections of chapter 210, Acts 

 of 1891, provided that " The said State Board of Agricult- 

 ure may exercise all the duties and powers herein conferred 

 upon said Board by and through its secretary and such mem- 

 bers of said Board as it may designate and appoint to have 

 in charge, in conjunction with its secretary, the execution of 

 the purposes of this act." 



At a meeting of the Board of Agriculture, April 28, 1891, 

 called for that purpose, Win, R. Sessions, N. S. Shaler and 

 Francis H. Appleton were chosen "a committee with full 

 powers to exercise all the duties and powers conferred upon 

 the Board of Agriculture by an act to provide against the 

 depredations of the insect known as the Ocneria dispar or 

 gypsy moth, known as House Bill No. -Ji'S." Thus the same 

 men who had since March 4th acted as a commission in the 

 gypsy moth work were appointed under the law to act for 

 the Board of Agriculture. As a consequence, the work of 

 the Board carried on by the committee was a continuation 

 of the work of the commission, and therefore it is necessary 

 that the work of the second commission should be noticed as 

 preliminary to the report of the work of this Board. By 

 enquiring of the auditor, it was ascertained that there was 

 remaining unexpended of the appropriation of last year 

 $24,460.68. This sum was available for the work of the 

 commission. 



The members of the first commission were consulted. 

 They gave the new commission such information as they had 

 obtained as to the extent of territory infested, the method 

 pursued by them in their last season's work, and turned over 

 the property and records. Prof. C. V. Riley, entomologist 

 of the United Slates Department of Agriculture, Prof. C. II. 

 Fernald of the Agricultural College, Prof. Samuel Henshaw 

 of the Boston Natural History Society, and Prof. S. H. Scud- 

 der of ( Jambridge, expert entomologists, Mere invited to meet 

 with the commission and consider the conditions and the work 

 to be done, and give advice as entomologists. They all ac- 

 cepted the invitation, and met with the commissioners early 



