first annual report of the 
the Resolution, I accepted with thanks the offer so liberal , 
me, in a letter addressed to jour President and h • , y * 6 
25th, 1867. ^ resident and bearing date May 
In the meantime the Governor bad called a Special Session of the 
Legislature to meet June 11th, 1867. DuriL this « • 
presented my name to the Senate as his appointee for SUfoE t 
mologist, along with the names of severaf gentlemen^^as his an' 
SenatTtook tlTg^Thtt^T T™' ^ 41,686 CaSeS the 
r such app-rr: :a::s ^ 
specified objects of which such appointments formed no pLt and 
they therefore postponed all further consideration of alMl ’ 
sr rfisSt next Reguiar Bien,,iai session » ■» ^id i; z 
tion. 0th Wh°e U n a t n h T P lac ^ in a false posi- 
oiot > e re hundred dollars was voted by you on May 
,’ ! Was , kn0wn that a Special Session would have to be called 
e-f? 6 1 at 7e ,7’ and 14 WaS confident] y anticipated by everyone 
-1ST 1 ;: ;■ “• i* 4 j, z 
Session, whenever it met^ ZT“ “ ““ 
of th,t Q As tbe matter actually stood at the close 
of that Session, neither myself nor any body else had any W 
-is™ and fo thl * ^ *° ^ emoluments of Stat e Entomolo- 
« st, and in the ordinary course of events no one could have such 
claim for a year and a half thereafter. It was manifestly absurd 
suppose, that I could for the sum of $500 perform for two 
to be 6 yea ' S C , Utll?S ’ f ° r Whlch the Legislature had thought $4,000 
stroncT J u compensation ; and the impression on my mind was 
, .. S ’ tha * the whole movement in this direction had proved a 
PoiuiLTo en - t0 the s i ound ' A11 men saw and felt that the 
olitica Commissioners, who had been in the same boat as myself 
, 6 1)01 1Ca y 1 61 ’ 1 supposed therefore that the State Ento¬ 
mologist was entomologically killed. 
Feeling as I have stated above, I wrote on June 19th, 1867 to 
your President, offering to release the Society entirely from any 
pecumaiy claim that I might have on them, and, if they declined 
such offer, proposing to continue my researches and investigations 
in the matter of those insects that are peculiarly injurious to fruit 
