. The American entomologist and botanist. duty, in reverentlybowing to the divine behest, to admit the obligationsluidcr which the deceased has placed us, in commonwith the cidturists of the West, by a patient, persever-ing devotion of a lifetime to the science of entomologyasapplied to the iiighest material interestsof this Associa-tion and the commonwealth of Kansas; therefore, be it? litsolcAl, That we hereby formally express the sor-row inseparable from our great loss in the death of , in the midst of hisgreat and increasing usefulness.• Resolved, That this preamble and resolution
. The American entomologist and botanist. duty, in reverentlybowing to the divine behest, to admit the obligationsluidcr which the deceased has placed us, in commonwith the cidturists of the West, by a patient, persever-ing devotion of a lifetime to the science of entomologyasapplied to the iiighest material interestsof this Associa-tion and the commonwealth of Kansas; therefore, be it? litsolcAl, That we hereby formally express the sor-row inseparable from our great loss in the death of , in the midst of hisgreat and increasing usefulness.• Resolved, That this preamble and resolutions bespread upon the records of this Society, and that anauthenticated copy thereof be transmitted to the widowof the deceased, and to C. V. Riley, Esq., siu-vivingeditor of the American Entomologist. (i. C. Brackett, Secretary. 130 THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. THE PLUM CUKCULIO. [Conotraclielus nenuphar, Ilerbst.) A TAPER READ EY THE EDITOR HEFOKE THE ILLIXOI« STATE IIORTICULTURAI, SOCIETY AT ITS FOURTEENTH ANNUAL 3IEETING. [Fig. 02.]. Colors—(a and !i) whitish; (c) brown,Ijlaclc ami clay-yellow. Ladies and Gentlemen: You have invitedme to read an essay on the Plum Curculio. Iaccepted the invitation with the intention ofpreparing an exhaustive paper on the the sudden death of my esteemed associateand your State Entomologist, the late Benj. , so completely upset my ai-rangements,and so increased my labors, that I have foundtime, only to substitute instead the followinghasty notes. So much has been written on the habits ofthis one little insect, and on the best means ofprotecting our fruits from its injurious work,that one almost tires of repeating those estab-lished facts in its history which, at tirst thought,it strikes one that all interested should this is a bustling, shifting, progressiveworld, and there are yet some mooted points tobe settled in the natural history of our Curculio. When an experienced man is taken from ourmidst, the fund of wi
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