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faction and instruction, never dreaming for one moment that I would have to refer to 

 it in justification of my veracity on the locust question; and here I must acknowledge 

 my obligations to the mice for sparing my record, it having been thrown, after the 

 specimens had been packed, into an old box or trunk in the garret, among some other 

 loose papers to which these little customers showed no sparing mercy. I have found 

 a sheet of the list of specimens forwarded to Washington in 1865, but I do not see any 

 locust on it. If my memory serves me right, we forgot the vial in which they were at 

 the place where we had breakfast the day we arrived at Poplar Point. If that has been 

 the case, I may not have written about them in my report on the egging expedition, 

 which has been published in full in the report of that year. I am not acquainted with 

 the army-worm, but of moths we have a great variety, and each of these varieties in 

 great numbers, during the summer months. Yon will observe that in this rambling 

 communication I have quoted my diary of occurrences as they were entered in my 

 note-book. My son, who had been with me on the trip to the lakes, remembers the ap- 

 pearance of the locusts near the lakes and of seeing them along the Red River after 

 we returned home, June 22. Other parties in this vicinity remember having seen them 

 that year in June, but not in great numbers. — Hon. Donald Gunn, September 16, 1877. 



