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which a national commission may derive from assistants acting 

 under its direction in every one of the States now infested may be 

 of great value, and will serve to bring completeness to a tusk 

 which any commission will find too widely extended to reach with 

 personal observation. There is no need to regret the trifling 

 sums which have so far been expended upon k 'grasshopper inves- 

 tigations," nor to begrudge the few hundred dollars that will 

 enable us to do what little we can in aid of that scientific inquiry 

 for which we now ask of the National Government competent 

 maintenance and the best learning that America can supply. 

 Respectfully submitted. 



ALLEN WHITMAN. 



