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temporarily (through the gnawing of the grubs), deprived of full 
power of drawing in food, and consequently were to a certain extent 
starving. 
Special applications and dressings must often be needed to check 
unexpected attack, and therefore all details of such applications are of 
service ; but if the general rules of treatment with regard to any of 
the common insects not yet fully reported on should he laid down by 
observers as thoroughly as has now been done regarding Carrot 
and Onion Fly, and Gooseberry Sawfly, we should all benefit greatly. 
I would suggest that such information is particularly needed 
regarding the Cabbage Moth, M. brassicce; and also that the Pea 
Weevils and the Celery Fly are insects which need much more 
attention. 
I now wish to offer a few words to the contributors to whom I am 
indebted for the notes of observation given in this Report. During 
the autumn I have been favoured with much useful information, 
contributed partly for the Report, partly for the Manual, which, with 
this assistance, I am preparing relatively to means of prevention, or 
of remedy for attack of all our most commonly injurious insects. In 
the publication of these notes I have followed the wishes of the 
contributors, as far as I was aware of them, but where I had no 
directions I have given in this Report such information as referred to 
the injurious insects on the observer’s list, and mainly reserved the 
other points, as well as in some cases the full detail of the method of 
operation, for the forthcoming volume. 
Amongst these latter observations I may especially mention some 
on Larch Aphis, and also on Pine Sawfly. It appears to be desirable 
to mention this, lest I should seem neglectful of the observations with 
which I feel it a favour to have been entrusted ; and as it is with the 
assistance of a large proportion of the contributors to this Report 
that I am forming the Manual, I do not deem it out of place to add, 
on the cover, a note of the progress of that work. 
The promise of contribution of information for the next Report is 
on a much more extensive scale than has hitherto been the case, and 
on my part it will be my endeavour to devote thorough attention to 
whatever may be entrusted to my care. Hitherto I have mainly 
limited myself, in publication, to mention of the Injurious Insects on 
the observer’s sheet, but in the next Report I purpose to publish all 
observations that I may be favoured with regarding any kind of our 
Injurious Insects, or matters connected with their prevention, and 
also to give many more illustrations. Meanwhile I should have 
pleasure in attending, to the best of my power, to any applications 
