48 Thirty-seyenth Annual Report of the 



A long delay in the publication of my first report to the Legisla- 

 ture,* and the length of time that it remained in my hands before its 

 final issue in November last, delayed any advance work. This, with 

 the other duties of my office, have prevented me from having in readi- 

 ness the annual report embodying my scientific investigations of the 

 past year, which I would have been happy to present to your honor- 

 able board at this time. You will, therefore, I trust, excuse its delay 

 which has seemed inevitable, and accept at the present a brief state- 

 ment of my official labors since the date of my appointment. 



Correspondence and Examinations. 



The correspondence of the office has been large, and, unaided as I 

 am, somewhat burdensome. "With the increasing interest felt through- 

 out our country in the causes and means of control of insect injuries, 

 calls for information upon these and kindred points are increasing in 

 frequency. While so few of our States have their entomologists, ad- 

 ditional labor devolves upon the few individuals who have been 

 specially set apart for entomological work. The determination of 

 specimens, or the investigation of some obscure form of insect attack 

 requested of me, may require the labor of days before suitable answer 

 can be returned. Such calls, when coming from other and remote 

 States of the Union, would more appropriately be sent to the Entomo- 

 logical Department at Washington, where, through its efficient corps 

 of six assistants to the Entomologist, large provision is made for an 

 amount of work of this character. Still, as scarcely a single study of 

 the kind, coming to me from whatever source it may, can fail of con- 

 tributing to the efficiency of this department, I have felt myself au- 

 thorized in giving to them all the attention that their importance has 

 appeared to demand. 



The results of these examinations have been, from time to time, 

 communicated by me to leading agricultural and scientific journals, 

 that the information conveyed might not be limited to the individual 

 replied to. Since the first of June, twenty-eight such publications 

 have been made by me. Several of these will be available, after emen- 

 dation and addition, for presentation in my annual report, or other 

 publication by the State Museum. 



Collections. 



Under the act last above cited, the collections made by the Ento- 

 mologist are to belong to, and form a part of, the collections of the State 

 Museum. Eor reasons above stated, my collections during the past 

 season have been quite limited. No excursions for the special purpose 

 of collecting, were made by me. There was not the available time to 

 devote to the immediate preparation for the cabinet which so large a 



♦First Annual Report | on tke | Injurious and other Insects | of the | State of New- 

 York | made to the State Legislature, pursuant to chapter 377 of | the Laws of 1881, | bv 



J. A. Lintner, | State Entomologist. | | Issued, October, 1883. | | Albany : f 



Weed, Parsons and Company, printers, | 1882. | — - | 8vo., pp. xxii-381, figs. 84. 



