﻿REPORT. 
  

  

  Office 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Entomologist, 
  

   Albany, 
  August 
  28, 
  1893. 
  

  

  To 
  the 
  Regents 
  of 
  the 
  University 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  of 
  New 
  York 
  : 
  

  

  Gentlemen 
  - 
  . 
  — 
  The 
  recent 
  change 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  resolution 
  of 
  

   your 
  board 
  in 
  the 
  time 
  for 
  the 
  presentation 
  of 
  the 
  annual 
  reports 
  

   of 
  the 
  Scientific 
  Staff 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Museum, 
  viz., 
  that 
  they 
  be 
  pre- 
  

   sented 
  in 
  readiness 
  for 
  printing 
  by 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  July 
  of 
  each 
  year, 
  

   instead 
  of 
  the 
  first 
  of 
  November 
  as 
  heretofore, 
  has 
  prevented 
  the 
  

   preparation 
  of 
  the 
  usual 
  report 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Entomologist, 
  contain" 
  

   ing 
  the 
  studies 
  of 
  the 
  insects 
  to 
  which 
  his 
  attention 
  has 
  been 
  

   given 
  during 
  the 
  year. 
  

  

  The 
  purpose 
  of 
  this 
  change 
  is 
  understood 
  to 
  be, 
  the 
  printing 
  of 
  

   the 
  reports 
  during 
  the 
  summer 
  or 
  autumn 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  of 
  their 
  

   presentation 
  and 
  before 
  the 
  legislative 
  printing 
  shall 
  engage 
  the 
  

   entire 
  time 
  and 
  resources 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Printer. 
  

  

  The 
  early 
  publication 
  of 
  scientific 
  studies 
  and 
  investigations 
  is 
  

   unquestionably 
  very 
  desirable 
  : 
  without 
  it, 
  much 
  of 
  their 
  interest 
  

   and 
  value 
  is 
  lost, 
  or 
  the 
  credit 
  due 
  them 
  accrues 
  to 
  later 
  studies 
  

   having 
  prompt 
  and 
  earlier 
  publication. 
  

  

  Your 
  Entomologist, 
  however, 
  fears 
  that 
  under 
  the 
  new 
  arrange- 
  

   ment 
  the 
  earlier 
  publication 
  of 
  his 
  studies 
  will 
  not 
  be 
  attained. 
  

   The 
  entire 
  occupancy 
  of 
  his 
  time 
  during 
  the 
  spring 
  and 
  early 
  

   summer 
  in 
  investigating 
  the 
  many 
  insect 
  attacks 
  that 
  belong 
  

   to 
  this 
  part 
  of 
  the 
  year, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  correspondence 
  connected 
  

   therewith, 
  and 
  attendant 
  field 
  studies, 
  can 
  leave 
  barely 
  

   the 
  opportunity 
  for 
  making 
  the 
  notes 
  which 
  are 
  to 
  be 
  

   worked 
  up 
  into 
  proper 
  form 
  during 
  the 
  autumn 
  and 
  winter. 
  

   A 
  report 
  presented 
  in 
  July, 
  to 
  be 
  printed 
  probably 
  during 
  the 
  

   November 
  following, 
  could 
  contain 
  but 
  little 
  beyond 
  the 
  results 
  

   of 
  the 
  preceding 
  year. 
  If 
  it 
  were 
  possible 
  so 
  to 
  arrange 
  that 
  

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