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Ilinois a ppointed Mr. Walsh Acting State Entomologist, and that gen- 
_ tleman has published his first report on the Injurious Insects of Illi- 
nois, cane facte of great value to the farmers and gardeners of 
the West. Mr. y has been appointed State A ris of Mis- 
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ginning to realize that the results of the labors of scientific men, freely 
given for the good of pas country, deserve, and should receive, some 
remuneration. A pittance given from the public treasury to aid in the 
researches of the sinus the chemist, or the physicist, we venture to 
Say, will prove, sooner or later, a safe investment. 
Our readers will find the present number of Si leyers Entomolo- 
gist” a very readable one, and we advise them to send for r. Walsh 
believes that the Seventeen-year Locust never stings, in ra opinion 
We concur, but he farther suggests that the severe sting said to be made 
_ by this, to > man, harmless insect, is made by the great Stizus, a burrowing 

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louse on the Osag a 
Worm of the ‘cag ae Fire-flies, etc., etc., and Answers to 
_ Correspondents closes this promising number. 

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BOTANY. 
Sect FERTILIZATION. — A plant has just blossomed in the Cambridge 
Otanical Garden, which shows so plainly a design to age cross-fertili- 
_ Aton, that a brief account of it cannot fail to be interestin 
shag a Posoqueria—one of the immense natural order of “Rubiaceæ; a 
probably of Central or South America: the particular EnA 

