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New York State list of insects. Ten years ago the various 
entomologists in the State launched a cooperative project to list the 
various species of insects known to occur in New York State and 
as far as possible the detailed distribution of each within the State. 
Dr J. Chester Bradley of Cornell University was made editor-in- 
chief and the various major groups were placed under the immedi- 
ate supervision of certain specialists who acted as subeditors. Many 
data were compiled, but for various reasons Doctor Bradley during 
the past few years has been unable to push the project actively. 
On his coming to Albany, the Associate State Entomologist was 
urged by all the entomological workers in the State to assume active 
editorship of the list and to see it through to a final conclusion. 
This he agreed to do, realizing it as one of the most important 
projects he could undertake. The accurate listing of the approxi- 
mately 25,000 species of insects in the State is a considerable under- 
taking but it will lay the foundation for important work of a highly 
practical application and will also encourage amateurs in the col- 
lection and study of New York State insects. The task requires the 
most painstaking scientific accuracy on the part of the best specialists 
and a detailed knowledge of their various groups. The active co- 
operation of more than seventy-five workers is now enlisted and the 
work is well along toward completion. 
Cooperation. As in the past, the office of the State Entomologist 
has continued to cooperate closely with various agencies. Some 
assistance was given to the spray service specialists located in the 
Hudson river valley under the general supervision of the New York 
State College of Agriculture. The office has acted in a consulting 
capacity on many occasions with the Department of Farms and 
Markets and also with the State Health Department and a number of 
the county agricultural agents. Close touch has been kept with the 
work of the entomologists at the Geneva Experiment Station both 
by correspondence and by personal contact. The Associate State 
Entomologist has acted as collaborator in European corn borer con- 
trol with the United States Bureau of Entomology at Washington. 
Conferences. During the past year the Associate State Ento- 
mologist attended a general corn borer conference and field trip at 
St Thomas, Ontario, Canada; the field meeting of the northeastern 
entomologists in Connecticut; the New York State Fruit Growers’ 
Association meeting in Rochester, and Farmers Week at the New 
York State College of Agriculture. At this latter and also at the 
diamond jubilee meeting of the Entomological Society of Ontario, 
