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FIRST ANNUAL REPORT OF THE 
pestilent yellow-covered literature of the day should monopolize 
all the wit and humor. If there is one thing which I have at heart 
more than another, it is to popularize Science — to bring her down 
from the awkward high stilts on which she is ordinarily paraded 
before the world — to show how sweet and attractive she is when 
the frozen crust, in which she is usually enveloped, is thawed away 
by the warm breath of Nature — and more especially to demon¬ 
strate how delightful that particular branch of science, to which I 
have devoted half a life-time, may be made to any one, who will 
keep his eyes wide open as he walks through his garden or his 
orchard. If I merely succeed in enticing away a single young 
woman from her mawkish novelettes and romances into the flowery 
paths of Entomology, or if I can only induce a single young man, 
instead of haunting saloons and lounging away his time at street- 
corners, to devote his leisure to studying the wonderful works of 
the Creator, as exemplified in these tiny miracles of perfection 
which the people of the United States call “ bugs,” I shall think 
that I have not written altogether in vain. 
I have felt, of course, that the main object of this Report is, and 
ought to be, the investigation of the history and habits of such 
Noxious Insects, as are peculiarly troublesome in the Garden and 
in the Orchard, and the suggestion of such modes of fighting these 
foes as will be found to be practically most successful. I know 
that my principal duty is to add in this manner to the profits of 
the Gardener and the Fruit-grower, and thereby incidentally to 
add to the sum total of the wealth of this great and growing State. 
But “man does not live by bread alone;” and there are other 
pursuits, besides dollars and cents, which are worthy the notice of 
every one. It is an excellent thing to have plenty to eat and to 
drink and to wear, and to have a good warm house over one’s head 
_especially in the winter-time in Northern Illinois. These wants 
of the body are of primary importance, and must be, and ought to 
be, attended to by every man — whether he be a day-laborer, or 
whether he be a philosopher. But, besides the body, every man 
has a mind, which requires food, just as much as does the body; 
and if we starve the mind and feed the body fat, we are simply 
dwarfing and stunting that intellectual part of us, by which alone 
we are distinguished from the beasts of the field. I hope I shall he 
