APPEIVDIX V. 



KAXSAS DATA FOE 1877. 



• REPORT BY GEORGE F. GAUMER, SPECIAL ASSISTANT. 



[From tlio monthly report of the State Board of Agricultnre.] 



State or Kaxsas, Execjutite Depaktment, 

 Tope}:a, September 12, 1877. 

 Dear Sir : During the montli of April I deemed it so important to the State to learn 

 the condition and history of the then hatching locusts, in their subsequent develop- 

 ment, that I asked the United States Entomological Commission to give the matter 

 special attention. 



Prompt notice was taken of this request, and Prof. C. V. Riley, chief of the Commis- 

 sion, came to the State, and after devoting considerable time to personal observation, 

 appointed two resident assistants, whose report should be furnished to this office. 



1 now hand you, for your information and use, the result of this work. If in your 

 judgment the reports contain information of public interest, they may be used in full 

 or in part, as you may determine. 

 Very respectfully, 



GEO. T. ANTHONY. 

 To Alfred Gray, Esq., 



Secretary State Board of Agriculture. 



Governor of the State of Kansas, TopeJca, Kansas: 



Dear Sir : I send you Mr. G. F. Gaumer's report, as my assistant in making obser- 

 vations in your State, in the l^elief that you may desire to make use of it before it is 

 officially published by the Commission. Taken in connection with my letter to you, 

 and Mr. A. N. Godfrey's report, which I have requested him to hand to you, it will 

 form a pretty complete record of the locust question in Kansas in 1877, up to the 1st 

 of August. 



Permit me herewith, on behalf of the Commission I represent, to acknowledge my 

 indebtedness to you, who generously paid the sum of ^2'2b toward defraying the 

 expenses of the special assistants I engaged in Kansas ; also, to thank you for your 

 uniform courtesy and aid in the performance of work in your State. 

 Believe me, yours, very truly, 



C. V. RILEY. 



Wlnnepeg, Manitoba, August 27, 1877. 



To the Memlers of the United States Entomological Commission : 



Gentlemen: I have the honor herewith to transmit to you the final report of my 

 observations on the habits and life-history of Caloptenus spretus. 



My observations have been confined to the counties of Bourbon, Crawford, Cherokee, 

 Labette, Neosho, Allen, Elk, Montgomerv, and Chautauqua. My work for the Commis- 

 sion began May 20, and continued'six weeks from that date. During most of the time 

 the weather was cool, cloudy, and wet, so that little more could be accomplished than 

 to record th^ appearance of the young locusts in the localities visited, and some few 

 facts about the eggs and their hatching. 



In presenting this rejyort I desire to extend many thanks to Prof. C. Y. Riley for the 

 honor conferred by appointing me assistant, to Gov. George T. Anthony, and to the 

 superintendents of the Kansas Pacific, Atchison, Topeka aud Santa Fe, Leavenworth, 



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