Mr. Maslin, who was present, was requested to state his views 

 and observations, which he did as follows : 



Mr. Maslin : On the 26th of July I went over with Mr. 

 Eisen, at his invitation, to examine the Blastophaga. We met 

 Mr. Shinn's son, who pointed out to us a fig tree which he said 

 was a Capri fig, and one of the importation made by the 

 S. F. Bulletin Company. The others in the rows belonged to 

 the edible fig. We found in the boughs of that Capri fig tree 

 the box containing the Capri figs imported by Mr. Shinn, with 

 quite a large number of dead Blastophaga. Mr. Eisen cut open the 



Figs grown and exhibited by Mr. Shinn. 

 (1) The large Smyrna, flesh amber color. ('2) The small Smyrna, flesh dark red. 



dried Capri figs and found them literally black with the insects, 

 which began to move, but very sluggishly. The size of the in- 

 sect is about one line, one-twelfth of an inch. We then took 

 some of those insects and scattered them at the so-called blos- 

 som end of some of the Capri figs and some of the figs known as 

 the Bulletin's importation. Mr. Eisen then proceeded to fertil- 

 ize some of the figs. We found that the fallen Capri figs from 

 the growing tree on the ground were full of pollen ; cutting 

 them open Mr. Eisen dusted the pollen about the open end of 



