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published in collaboration with Edward H. Forbush a notable 

 volume upon the gypsy moth. For the suppression of this 

 pest, which threatened to exterminate vegetation over one hun- 

 dred square miles, the state of Massachusetts made annual 

 appropriations amounting in all to more than one million dol- 

 lars, and the operations, carried on by a committee of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, rank among the most extensive of their 

 kind. 



New York. Dr. Asa Fitch, appointed in 1854 by the New 

 York State Agricultural Society, under the authorization of 

 the legislature, was the first entomologist to be officially com- 

 missioned by any state. His fourteen reports (1855 to 1872) 

 embody the results of a large amount of painstaking investi- 

 gation. 



In 1 88 1, Dr. James A. Lintner became state entomologist 

 of New York. Highly competent for his chosen work, Lint- 

 ner made every effort to further the cause of economic ento- 

 mology, and his thirteen reports, accurate, thorough and ex- 

 tremely serviceable, rank among the best. 



Lintner has had a most able successor in Dr. E. P. Felt, who 

 is continuing the work with exceptional vigor and the most 

 careful regard for the entomological welfare of the state. 

 Felt has published at this writing eighteen bulletins (including 

 seven annual reports), besides important papers on forest and 

 shade tree insects, and has directed the preparation by Need- 

 ham and his associates of three notable volumes on aquatic 

 insects. 



The Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 established in 1879, has issued many valuable publications 

 upon injurious insects, written by the master-hand of Pro- 

 fessor Comstock or else under his influence. The studies of 

 Comstock and Slingerland are always made in the most con- 

 scientious spirit and their bulletins original, thorough and 

 practical are models of what such works should be. 



Illinois. Mr. Benjamin D. Walsh, engaged in 1867 by the 

 Illinois State Horticultural Society, published in 1868, as act-. 



