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plained advent of armies of insect-destroyers ; and while 

 entomoloorists have classified them, and described them in 

 all their stages of development, no reliable theory has been 

 given for their coming and going, in such immense numbers 

 and at irregular times. 



The Board then adjourned. 



FOURTH DAY. 



The Board met at half-past nine o'clock, Mr. Grinnell in 

 the chair. 



Present : Messrs. Buell, Bowditch, Damon, Davis, Ed- 

 son, Farnsworth, Grinnell, Goodrich, Had wen, Haskell, 

 Hill, Horsey, Lane, Lynde, Moore, Nye, Noble, Round, Slade, 

 Sessions, Taft, Waterman, Ware, Warner and Wheeler. 



Voted^ That an act to establish an Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, chap. 212, sect. 3, of the year 1882, be 

 amended in the third line after the word legislature, by in- 

 serting the words, "and the State Board of Agriculture," 

 and that the Secretary ba instructed to have the same brought 

 before the legislature, and urge its adoption before the com- 

 mittee to which it may be referred. 



Prof. GoESSMANN, State Inspector of Fertilizers, sub- 

 mitted his Tenth Annual Report. 



