Excerpt from General Index and Supplement: To the Nine Reports on the Insects of Missouri The present Bulletin has been prepared in response to frequent suggestions from those having occasion to use the nine Annual Reports on the Insects of Missouri, made by me, as State Entomologist, to the State Board of Agriculture, during the years 1868 to 1877, inclusive. These Reports contain a good deal of matter aneut the Cotton Worm, the Chinch Bug, the Rocky Mountain Locust, and other insects which the Commission has studied, and were published, as required by law, in the Annual Reports of said State Board of Agriculture for the years mentioned. That method of publication was always regretted by myself and by many others, inasmuch as the reports of the Board were generally volumes of such bulk as to delay publication and render mailing expensive. By virtue of the fact that they were distributed only to members of the State legislature and to State societies, access to them by persons outside the State of Missouri was extremely difficuThe demand for the Reports and the manner in which they have been used and commended by subsequent writers can but be gratifying to the author, who feels that whatever of commendation they deserve is due to the fact that they embody results of original investigation. They contain some matter that, with present light, he would expunge, and the earlier volumes, more particularly, contain imperfections which no one appreciates more fully than himself. Many of these are attributable to isolation from other working entomologists at the time, as well as to the almost absolute dearth of entomological works of reference in any of the libraries of Saint Louis. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.