Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from First Annual Report on the Noxious Insects of the State of Illinois, 1903
The Report of Benjamin Dane Walsh as Acting State Entomologist of Illinois was made under peculiar circum stances, described on pages 5 to 8 of this reprint. At the 26th session of the State Legislature, an act was passed (approved March 25, 1869) for the relief of the State Entomologist, which had the virtual efiect to legalize his acts as a state officer during the period of nearly two years between his nomination by the Governor and his confirmation by the Senate; and his report, made to the State Horticultural Society and not to the Governor. Thus became actually, although not nominally, the first report of the office. It was published in 1868, in the Proceedings of the State Horticultural Society (volume I.) for 1867, and a separate pamphlet edition was printed by the Prairie Farmer Com pany of Chicago. In both these forms it has long been out of print and has become very scarce. I am pleased to have the opportunity to issue a second edition of this useful and interesting document, to the number of 00pies, and I do not doubt that its republication at state expense is amply warranted by the intrinsic value of its contents, and by its importance as the first of a long series of reports of the official entomologists of this state.
The original edition has been closely followed in this reprint, and no changes whatever have been made except in the correction of a few obvious typographical errors.
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