Repository: UIHistories Project: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1892 [PAGE 284]

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STATE LABORATORY OF NATURAL HISTORY.

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Report of Progress in Economic Entomology. Proc. 4th Ann. Convention Ass'n. Am. Agr. Colleges and Exper. Stations: in Misc. Bull. No. 3, U. S. Dept. Agr., Office Exper. Station, p. 29.) The Hessian Fly. (Bull. Univ. 111., Agric. Exper. Station, No. 12, p 377.) The F r u i t Bark Beetle. (Bull. 4, Office State Entomologist, 111.: Bull. Univ. 111., Agric. Exper. Station, No. 15, p. 469.) Zoology in the Public School: Choice and Arrangement of Material. (Public School Jour., xi, pp. 320, 375, 429.) The Head of the English Sparrow. (Prepared in accordance with a requirement of the law of the legislature, passed at its last sesson, offering a bounty for the destruction of sparrows.) The Chinch Bug in Illinois, 1891-92. (Bull. Univ. 111.. Agr. Exper. Station, No. 19, p. 44.) An All-around Microscope. (Am. Monthly Micr. Jour., 1892, p. 91.) The Fruit-Destroying Insects of Southern Illinois. (Trans. 111. Hort. Soc, 1891, p. 116.) The Importation of a Hessian Fly Parasite from Europe. (Insect Life, iv, p. 179.) Seventeenth Report of the State Entomologist on the Noxious and Beneficial Insects of the State of Illinois. CONTENTS.—The Fruit Bark Beetle. Experiments with Arsenical Poisons for the Plum and Peach Curculio. The American Plum Borer. On the Common White Grubs. Additional Notes on the Hessian Fly. A Summary History of the Corn Root Aphis. On a Bacterial Disease of the Larger Corn Root Worm. Notes on the Diseases of the Chinch Bug. Appendix.— An Analytical List of the Entomological Writings of Win. LeBaron, M. D., Second State Entomologist of Illinois. Marten, John.—Various entomological articles, published as Entomological Editor of the Prairie Farmer, Chicago, 111. Hart, Charles A.—The Life History of Wire Worms. (Insect Life, iii. p. 546.) On the Species of CEcanthus. (Entomological News, iii, p. 33.) Additional papers, prepared but not yet printed, are a presidential address on "The Progress of Economic Entomology During the Years 1891 and 1892," delivered by myself at the meeting of the American Association of Economic Entomologists at Rochester, N. Y.; my preliminary report to the United States Fish Commissioner, on the "Aquatic Invertebrate Fauna of Yellowstone Park, Wyoming, and of the Flathead Region of Montana:" and two important papers, now in the hands of my assistants, well advanced towards completion: the first by Mr. Marten, containing descriptions of new species of Illinois gall gnats, and the other by Mr. Hart,—a descriptive list of the aculeate Hymenoptera of the state. Reference should here be made, for the purpose of completing this summary of our services in the field of economic instruction, to the various addresses made within the state by Mr. Marten and myself.

DISTRIBUTION OF M A T E R I A L .

In pursuance of the plan mentioned in my last biennial report, 14,000 insects were distributed during the winter of 1890-91 to thirty-nine public schools. These sets were named, labeled and systematically arranged, and were accompanied by printed pamphlets giving the information necessary to make them available for use in the work of the schools. Notwithstanding this heavy draft on our duplicate material, our entomological collections are already larger than before the distribution was made. The fact t h a t the insects belonging to the State Laboratory of Natural History are now Kept in the University building, and are held at the service or students, under suitable conditions, makes unnecessary any further