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Wholesale Nurseries, George A. Sweet Nurserv Co., Rogers J^ur- 

 lerj, all of Dansville; Brown Bros. Co., Chase Bros. Co., First 

 Katioual Nurseries, Perry Nursery Co., J. B. Nellis & Co., all of 

 Brighton; Lewis Eoesch, T. S. Hubbard Co., G. S. Josselyn Co., 

 all of Fredonia ; Knight & Bostwick, Emmons & Co., and C. W. 

 Stuart & Co., all of Newark. 



Voluntary observers. The work of the voluntary observers begun 

 in 1899 has been continued, but lowing to an unusually dry spell 

 in the early part of the season followed by excessive rains, there 

 has been comparatively little to report except injuries by plant 

 lice, a group of insects on which the voluntary observers are not 

 well qualified to rep'ort. As a consequence, there are not so many 

 records as have been made in earlier seasons, though the sum 

 total of their observations amounts to a material addition to our 

 knowledge concerning some very important injurious insects. 

 Summaries of these reports are published under the usual head. 



Acknowledgments. The untimely death of our highly esteemed 

 and gifted associate, the late Prof. V. H. Lowe of the State 

 Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva, is a source of de^p 

 regret and a severe loss to the science he loved so well. The ento- 

 mologist has been favored by the cooperation of a number of pr«o- 

 fessional workers. To Dr L. O. Howard, chief of the division of 

 entomology, United States Department of Agriculture, and his 

 staff, special acknowledgments are due for the determination of 

 a number of insects and for information regarding different 

 species. Mr E. P. VanDuzee, of Buffalo, a well known authority 

 on Hemii^tera, has kindly identified all our Pentatomidae and a 

 number of related forms, and we are indebted to Prof. Mel. T. 

 Cook, of De Pauw University, Greencastle Ind., for the determina- 

 tion of many insect galls. The appreciation of our work by the 

 many friends of the office is a source of pleasure, and the support 

 given by those in authority is very gratifying. 



Respectfully submitted 



Ephraim Porter Felt 



State Entomologist 

 Office of the State Entomologist 

 Allany, Oct. 15, 1903 



