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  FORTT-SEVENTH 
  REPORT 
  ON 
  THE 
  STATE 
  MUSEUM. 
  

  

  the 
  reports 
  of 
  the 
  several 
  members 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Museum 
  Scientific 
  

   Staff, 
  covering 
  the 
  entire 
  year's 
  operations, 
  could 
  be 
  printed 
  dur- 
  

   ing 
  the 
  spring 
  following 
  thereafter, 
  it 
  would, 
  I 
  am 
  confident, 
  leave 
  

   nothing 
  further 
  in 
  time 
  of 
  publication 
  to 
  be 
  desired. 
  The 
  present 
  

   system 
  has 
  been 
  found 
  to 
  be 
  unsatisfactory 
  and 
  vexatious, 
  as 
  

   may 
  appear 
  from 
  the 
  delay 
  attending 
  the 
  printing 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  

   Museum 
  Reports 
  for 
  the 
  years 
  1891 
  and 
  1892 
  — 
  the 
  reports 
  of 
  

   the 
  Geologist, 
  Botanist, 
  and 
  Entomologist 
  contained 
  therein 
  

   being 
  still 
  in 
  MS. 
  The 
  reports 
  for 
  lb91 
  narrowly 
  escaped 
  

   destruction 
  in 
  the 
  burning 
  of 
  the 
  State 
  Printing 
  House, 
  in 
  Sep- 
  

   tember, 
  1892. 
  

  

  Increasing 
  Interest 
  in 
  the 
  Work 
  of 
  the 
  Department. 
  

  

  The 
  work 
  of 
  my 
  Department 
  continues 
  to 
  increase 
  in 
  propor- 
  

   tion 
  to 
  the 
  greater 
  interest 
  that 
  is 
  being 
  taken 
  in 
  it, 
  as 
  the 
  result 
  

   of 
  annually 
  increasing 
  insect 
  ravages, 
  the 
  necessity 
  of 
  resisting 
  

   them 
  if 
  serious 
  losses 
  shall 
  not 
  be 
  sustained, 
  and 
  a 
  conviction 
  

   that 
  experience 
  has 
  given 
  our 
  agriculturists 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  within 
  their 
  

   power 
  to 
  lessen 
  these 
  losses 
  very 
  materially 
  through 
  a 
  faithful 
  

   use 
  of 
  the 
  means 
  that 
  the 
  economic 
  Entomologist 
  has 
  pointed 
  out. 
  

  

  Applications 
  for 
  aid 
  in 
  meeting 
  insect 
  attacks 
  have 
  been 
  

   numerous, 
  and 
  in 
  nearly 
  every 
  instance 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  possible 
  to 
  

   return 
  information 
  that 
  could 
  not 
  fail 
  of 
  being 
  of 
  service 
  to 
  the 
  

   inquirer. 
  The 
  correspondence 
  of 
  the 
  office 
  is 
  steadily 
  growing. 
  

   Much 
  of 
  the 
  information 
  sent 
  from 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  in 
  communica- 
  

   tions 
  made 
  to 
  leading 
  agricultural 
  papers, 
  and 
  to 
  the 
  local 
  press 
  

   when 
  some 
  new 
  form 
  of 
  attack 
  is 
  apparently 
  confined 
  to 
  a 
  lim- 
  

   ited 
  portion 
  of 
  the 
  State. 
  In 
  replies 
  to 
  inquiries, 
  which 
  are 
  often 
  

   limited 
  to 
  the 
  name 
  of 
  the 
  depredator 
  and 
  remedies 
  or 
  protec- 
  

   tion, 
  it 
  has 
  been 
  the 
  aim 
  to 
  add 
  such 
  details 
  of 
  life-history 
  and 
  

   habits, 
  especially 
  if 
  not 
  previously 
  published, 
  as 
  may 
  tend 
  to 
  

   give 
  them 
  permanent 
  value 
  and 
  serve 
  as 
  additions 
  to 
  the 
  steadily 
  

   increasing 
  stock 
  of 
  economic 
  entomological 
  literature. 
  

  

  Publications 
  of 
  the 
  Entomologist. 
  

  

  Including 
  a 
  few 
  papers 
  printed 
  in 
  scientific 
  journals, 
  more 
  than 
  

   fifty 
  publications 
  have 
  been 
  v 
  made 
  by 
  the 
  Entomologist 
  during 
  

   January- 
  August 
  of 
  the 
  present 
  year. 
  The 
  usual 
  list, 
  giving 
  

   titles, 
  place 
  of 
  publication 
  and 
  summaries 
  of 
  contents, 
  will 
  be 
  

   communicated 
  for 
  the 
  next 
  report. 
  

  

  