ENTOMOLOGICAL SURVEY. 
New-York State Agricultural Society, ? 
Agricultural Rooms, May 8, 1854. J 
At a meeting of the executive committee of the Society, held at 
the Astor House, in the city of New-York, May 4, 
Mr. Johnson stated to the board that the Legislature had made 
an appropriation of one thousand dollars for an examination of 
insects, especially of those injurious to vegetation, and authorizing 
the appointment of a suitable person to perform the work. 
On motion of Mr. Johnson, 
Resolved, That Asa Fitch, M. D., of Washington county, be 
appointed to perform the work, and that he be furnished with 
such accommodations as he may desire, in the rooms appointed 
for the laboratory, in charge of the Society, and that the Presi¬ 
dent and Mr. Johnson, Corresponding Secretary, be a committee 
to prepare instructions for said entomological examinations. 
The following instructions to the entomologist were prepared by 
the committee and delivered to Dr. Fitch: 
ENTOMOLOGICAL EXAMINATIONS. 
The Legislature, at its last session, having appropriated the 
sum of $1,000, to be expended by the Society in an examination 
of the insects of the State, especially those injurious to vegeta¬ 
tion; the executive committee having appointed Asa Fitch, M.D., 
of Salem, Washington county, to make the examination, the 
following regulations for the guidance of the examiner were 
prepared by William Kelly, President, and B. P. Johnson, Secre¬ 
tary of the Society, the committee appointed for that purpose. 
