INTRODUCTION. 
VII 
Annual Report of the State Entomologist,* and repealing all acts and 
parts of acts inconsistent with that in which the above authoriza¬ 
tion is given, so far as the same related to the State Board of Agri¬ 
culture. This law was interpreted by Dr. Thomas to make it the 
duty of the State Entomologist to report annually instead of bien¬ 
nially, and his Second Report (the seventh in all) was consequently 
rendered in 1877, and related to the work of that year. It was 
printed, as authorized by the above law, as an appendix to the 
heport of the State Department of Agriculture, and two hundred 
copies are understood to have been issued separately in pamphlet 
form. 
The succeeding Reports, from the Eighth to the Eleventh, (from 
the third to the sixth of Thomas), have a similar history, all being 
annually published as appendices to the Agricultural Report of the 
corresponding year, and issued separately to the number of two 
hundred copies. These appendices are all paged separately, and 
are not mentioned upon the title page of the Report of the Depart¬ 
ment nor in the lettering upon the back of the volume. 
The Eleventh Report (for 1881) was the last by Dr. Thomas, as 
lie tendered his resignation early in 1882, to take effect June 30, or 
that year. 
The present incumbent, Stephen Alfred Forbes, was appointed 
Julv 3 1882, and his first Report, the Twelfth of the office and 
the last here indexed, although made as for the entire yeai then 
current, actually related only to the lattei half of it. 
To complete the record of the office to the date of writing, it may 
be added that the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Reports, for the years 
1883 and 1884, were printed, like the preceding, as appendices o 
the Transactions of the State Department of Agriculture for the 
corresponding years, and that the usual editions of two hundred 
copies each were issued separately. 
No office accommodations have ever been furnished the State 
Entomologist by the State, and the location of the office lias con¬ 
sequently varied with the personal residence of the Kntomo ogi t,_ 
that of Mr. Walsh at Rock Island of Dr LeBaron at bene'a, o 
Dr. Thomas at Carbondale, and that of Prof, t orbes at first at the 
State Normal University, at Normal, but transferred to the I lmois 
Industrial University, at Champaign, at the beginning ot the current 
year. , . , , 
The first legislative appropriation to the State Entomologist for 
any expenses other than those of salary anc e P ^700 was 
of his reports, was made at the session of WB, when |700 «as 
appropriated for the illustration of the lepoi s o ' j 
the years 1872 and 1873, and lor the necessary stationery a ^ 
postage stamps to be used m the performan , . , . 
duties Dr. LeBaron had received, however, P r , evl0 “ 8 m 1l0 o t { hl L^^ 
from the contingent fund of the Governor, the sum of ?Ab8o, 
•This provision was reiterated in 1883, in the amended law relating to the State Boat d 
if Agiicuiture. 
