letter of transmittal 
Office of State Entomologist, 
Champaign, Illinois, December 30, 188b. 
To His Excellency, Richard J. Oglesby, Governor of the State 
of IU ™ 0lS ' J to transmit herewith my report as State 
Sir: I have the hon & December 31, 1886. As a 
Entomologist foi h J Ge nerfl makes it doubtful whether 
recent opimon of Attoniey^^ tQ this office (to some 
I have a right, unde anv other than a 
extent inconsistent and conflicting) P and ghall her e- 
can I continueHo provide ^ History Survey, for which, 
Director of the State Laboratory of Natural History, I was 
made responsible by the Thirty-fourth General Assembly. 
Respectfully submitted, 
S. A. Forbes, 
State Entomologist. 
