Lepidoptera, six of Homoptera, five of Heteroptera, and eight o 
Diptera. Mr. Glover contemplates adding six or eight more platei 
of Coleoptera, and ten or twelve of Lepidoptera, to make the worl 
as complete as possible. These will make, at least, two liundree 
and twenty-two plates, and as each plate contains twenty-five o 
more figures, we shall have here exhibited, at the lowest estimate 
six thousand, five hundred and fifty illustrations of our Nortl 
American insects. In addition to these, there are already com 
pleted, twenty-two plates of the cotton plant and the insects in 
jurious to it. The drawing and etching have both been performee 
by Mr. Glover himself, and the whole work, as I understand, liai 
been performed wholly outside of his regular office hours ; a re 
markable monument, certainly, to the zeal and industry of tin 
author. This work, having been performed under such disadvan 
tageous circumstances, the figures necessarily exhibit considerable 
inequality, in point of excellence, and many of them will have t( 
be retouched before they are ultimately submitted for publication 
but the author informs me that the whole work could be finishec 
in a few months if he could devote his time exclusivelv to it. 
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The clause in the law by which the office of State Entomologisi 
was established, which makes it a part of his duty to prepare i 
cabinet of the insects of the State for the Illinois Industrial Uni 
versity, has never yet been carried out. Mr. Walsh had accumu 
lated valuable materials for this purpose, but no suitable provisioi: 
has yet been made at the University to receive them. It is m3 
intention, as soon as the work of preparing this Report is com 
pleted, to commence making up a collection, systematically ar 
ranged and named, both from Mr, Walsh’s collection and my own 
to be placed in temporary boxes, ready to be transferred to the 
museum of the Industrial University, whenever it shall be desired, 
and when suitable provision shall be made for their reception. 
Most of the figures accompanying this report are reprints 0; 
figures prepared by Mr. C. Y. Riley, for the illustration of hit 
own Reports, or the pages of the American Entomologist. So fai 
as I could avail myself of these figures, it answered my purpose 
as well as new engravings could have done, and they were ob¬ 
tained at considerably less than the original cost. 
