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was not certainly ascertained. With Gardiners bay it seems to 

 share the honor of being at the present time more prolific than 

 any other part of the island. 



^^ext were visited Cow bay, Hempstead harbor, Oyster bay, 

 Huntington bay and Smithtown bay, on the north side of the 

 island. ' The conditions in each of these areas of the sound are 

 practically the same. At one time producing many hard and soft 

 clam.s, they are all now suffering to an extreme degree from over- 

 digging. In no part of Long Island perhaps is the paralysis of 

 the clam indu<stries so complete as along this northwest coast. 



From Smithtown bay to Orient Point the coast is bold and 

 without inlets and has never produced many clams. Several 

 points were examined, as at Setauket, Port Jefferson and Wad- 

 ing river, but this part of the coast seemed to be relatively unim- 

 portant in this investigation. 



Last of all, the towns on the north shore of the Great Peconic 

 bay were visited. This shore as in Gardiners bay seemed to 

 afford great natural advantages for the growth of both hard and 

 soft clams and the scallop. At Riverhead, Aquebogue and 

 Greenport many of these forms are still marketed, but, as in 

 Gardiners bay, the supply has recently shown an alarming fall- 

 ing off. 



The general conclusion reached from this brief survey is that, 

 while the supply of clams and scallops on the coast of Long 

 Island is not in all localities decimated as on the coast of New 

 England, the falling off in this supply certainly demands most 

 serious attention. 



Prof. James H. Stoller of Union college, who has been making 



a special study of isopods, contributes to this report a description 



of a new species. 



ENTOMOLOGY 



A statement of progress in this field is contained in the report 

 of the state entomologist. The introduction gives the general 

 entomologic features of the year, mentions the increase in routine 

 ofiSce work, describes briefly the three special lines of work under- 

 taken, namely. 1) Experiments with insecticides on the San 



