To the Senate and House of Representatives : 
I transmit to the House of Representatives, for the information of 
the Legislature, Reports from George B. Emerson, Esq., Chairman of 
the Commission for the Botanical and Zoological Survey, from Dr. 
Harris, on the Habits of Insects injurious to Vegetation, in Massachu- 
setts, and from Dr. Gould, on Molluscous, and the other Lower 
Animals. 
EDWARD EVERETT. 
Councit CHamBER, 
19th April, 1838. 
