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permit, reporting results for such verification in the field as may 

 seem to be required. 



NEEDS OF THE WORK. 

 For the future we need especially an entomological laboratory. 

 that we may conduct our experimental work on a larger scale and 

 under conditions completely under our control. The necessity we 

 are now under for traveling one hundred and fifty miles every time 

 we wish to make an observation on the Hessian fly or the chinch bug, 

 because we cannot arrange breeding frames large enough to contain 

 a sufficient number of these insects and their food; and our failure, 

 after four years' work, to make out some of the indispensable points 

 in the life history and habits of the corn plant louse because we 

 have no sufficient means of keeping this species under observation 

 without exposing our specimens to conditions so unnatural that they 

 soon perish, are illustrations of the disadvantages under which we 

 work. To supply this lack I shall have to ask from the Legislature 

 an appropriation of $1000 for the erection and furnishing of a suita- 

 ble building for the breeding of insects, the rearing of their food 

 plants, and other experimental work of this description. Otherwise, 

 the appropriations now required need not vary materially from those 

 made at the last session of the Legislature. 

 Respectfullv submitted, 



S. A. FORBES, 



Director of Laboratory. 



October 31, 1888. 



