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-tions about it during the summer and shall publish a full account of it in my forthcoming Report to the Department of Agriculture.

Quite a lot of alcoholic material has been received through Lieut. R. W. Shufeldt from Ft. Wingate, N. M.  As it was his desire to have this material determined as far as possible I have taken pains to separate and mount it carefully and have it kept it intact for him and sent on a full list of the determinations. 

[[cross-out]]G[H?][/cross-out]] The most valuable addition, from a classifactory standpoint, to the collection during that period, however, is the Dipterological collection of Mr. Edward Burgess, Treasurer of the Boston Society of Natural History, which was obtained by purchase; while the most valuable from a popular and economic view is the exhibit collection prepared for the New Orleans Exhibition. This has been returned with little injury and is only awaiting space for permanent placing in the Museum. It is made up of the following material arranged in cases made of the same unit plan as those of the Museum. 

1. INSECTS INJURIOUS TO AGRICULTURE.---Arranged according to the particular plant and the particular part of the plant affected, and containing, as far as possible, the different states of growth of the insect, its enemies and parasites, a statement of the remedies or preventives available and a reference to the chief articles where full information can be found upon it. These references are principally, to Government and States reports, to which the farmer will most likely have access.

2. Insecticide Substances.---In the catalogue of this collection the aim has been to add, as briefly as possible, a statement of the method of using such substances, so that whenever in the first section of a particular substance is recommended for a particular