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No. 145.] 
As it is the chief object of this examination to elicit and diffuse 
information of much importance to our citizens, upon a subject 
with which they are imperfectly acquainted, we would suggest 
that an extra number of copies of the report be printed, for we 
have no other legislative document which will be more accepta- 
' ble and profitable to our constituents in the rural districts, or to 
any man who has even a fruit tree growing in his yard. 
At the recent annual meeting, after a full consideration of this 
subject, the State Agricultural Spciety, by a unanimous vote, 
asked of the Legislature a continuance of the appropriation for 
the ensuing year, but that vote not having been communicated to 
the committee of ways and means, that item was not included in 
the appropriation bill which passed the House last week. Cer¬ 
tainly, if the request of any body of men merits consideration 
from the Legislature, it is that of the State Agricultural Society, 
convened at its annual meeting, embracing a large number of 
our most intelligent and respec.table citizens from all parts of the 
State, the very men upon whom the burthen of taxation most 
heavily falls. 
The document which has been referred to your committee fur- 
, nishes ample evidence of the able and thorough manner in which 
the work is conducted, and of the important information which 
it will bring to light ; and when investigations of such value to 
our citizens, and so important to science, can be secured by an ex¬ 
penditure so small as the amount required for continuing this 
work, your committee can but think the State does itself great 
injustice, if it permits this examination of its insects to be sus¬ 
pended ; indeed, the State is too poor to dp without the contribu¬ 
tion which can thus be made to her resources, and science will 
never excuse the Legislature, if it shall refuse the appropriation 
for this work. It has been a topic of remark and congratulation 
in scientific circles of Europe, which appreciate its importance, 
that the additions which will be made to the science by the ex¬ 
ploration of the insects of this State, will be of great value to 
the student of “ American Entomology.” 
