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UNIVERSITY

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ILLINOIS.

Preliminary Report upon the Invertebrate Animals inhabiting Lakes Geneva and Mendota, Wisconsin, with an Account of the Fish Epidemic in Lake Mendota in 1884. (Bull. U. S. Fish Comm, viii, p. 473.) A Summary History of the Corn-Root Aphis. (Insect Life, iii, p. 233.) On the Life History of the White Grubs. (Insect Life, iii, p. 239.) 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. Stations, p. 29.) The Hessian Fly. (Bull. Univ. 111. Agric. Exper. Station, No. 12, p. 377.) The Fruit Bark-Beetle. (Bull. 4, Office State Entomologist 111.: Bull. Univ. 111. Agric. Exper. Station, No. 15, p. 469.) Zoology in Public School: Choice and Arrangement of Material. (Public School Journ., 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 session, 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. Journ., 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:—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 on 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 t h e Entomological Writings of Wm. Le Baron, 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 Wireworms. (Insect Life, iii, p. 246.) On the Species of (Ecanthus. (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 t h e 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 t h e other by Mr. Hart,—a descriptive list of the aculeate Hymenoptera of t h e State. Reference should here be made, for the purpose of completing this summary of our services in t h e field of economic instruction, to the various addresses made within the State by Mr. Marten and myself.

DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIAL.

In pursuance of the plan mentioned in my last biennial report, 14,000 insects were distributed during t h e winter of 1890-91 to thirty-nine public schools. These sets were named, labeled, and systematically arranged,