v DR. FITCH’S SIXTH REPORT ON THE NOXIOUS 
AND OTHER INSECTS OP THE STATE OF NEW 
YORK. 
The sixth report of Dr. Fitch, which was being prepared for this volume 
of the Transactions, has been delayed by his illness, which has prevented 
its completion in time for this volume. It will be given in the succeeding 
volume, together with the seventh report. The delay will enable him to 
prepare the report more fully than he would have been able to do, had his 
sickness not prevented its completion. His health is now restored, and he 
will prosecute his work with renewed energy in preparing the most impor¬ 
tant reports of the investigations thus far. 
We are gratified at the great interest manifested in these investigations. 
The demands for the reports already published, come from every section of 
our own country, and from every foreign country with which we are in cor¬ 
respondence. The saving to many of our farmers and horticulturists, by 
observing the directions given in the reports published, have already 
amounted, we are confidently assured, to more, in a pecuniary point of 
view, than tho entire expenditure made for the promotion of agriculture by 
our State government. We are confident that each succeeding year will add 
largely to this amount, as the number of intelligent farmers will be increased, 
who will adopt the suggestions made in relation to the culture and preser¬ 
vation of their trees, and the advice given in relation to the ravages of the 
devastating insects upon their crops and fruit and forest trees. We trust the 
Doctor’s health and strength will be preserved so that he shall be enabled 
to complete his work, and leave to the farmers of our country a legacy 
more rich than that which any hero has ever given the world. 
We are gratified in presenting two addresses of Dr. Fitch before the 
Society ; one giving a summary view of “ our most pernicious insects,” 
the other “ on the curculio and the black knot on plum trees.” 
These will be found of great value, and the latter, on the curculio, is one 
of the fullest and most reliable publications on this destructive insect and 
its ravages which has been published. The remedies which have proved the 
most efficacious are here given, and we cannot doubt, that a careful exami¬ 
nation of these, and strict attention to the suggestions given will prove of 
incalculable advantage to our fruit growers. J. 
