lUll.l PUBLIC DOCUMENT — No. 31. 77 



REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



H. T. FERNALD. 



The year 1910 has been marked by numerous changes in this 

 department. The resignation of Prof. C. H. Fernald in June, 

 as station entomologist, marks the first change in the head of this 

 portion of the station work since the department was established 

 in 1888. The resignation, at the same time, of Mr. J. N. 

 Summers from his connection with the station, and the poor 

 health of the writer during the early part of the year, neces- 

 sarily seriously affected the work accomplished, and the time 

 taken in the fall by moving into new quarters has practically 

 prevented anything besides routine work. 



The development of a new line of investigation has been 

 made possible by the appointment of Dr. B. N. Gates as station 

 apiarist. Dr. Gates's work will be, at least for the present, en- 

 tirely under the Adams fund. 



Mr. Arthur I. Bourne has been appointed assistant in ento- 

 mology, and is, in general, in charge of the correspondence and 

 of considerable of the experimental work. His appointment 

 will enable the head of the department to devote more time to 

 the larger problems relating to insects in this State, both in 

 general and in connection with Adams fund projects, than has 

 heretofore been the case. 



It has ])roved to be impossible to obtain an orchard near the 

 station in which to continue the observations on the size and 

 importance of the different broods of the codling moth. The 

 movement for better fruit in Massachusetts has been nowhere 

 more evident than in Amherst, and the results, though most 

 desirable iu general, have been disastrous for the continuation 

 of this series of observations, which must now be discontinued. 

 A loTi'i' delay in moving the greenhouse to its new site, and in 

 making it ready for use, has prevented taking up this year the 



