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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2012
The third report of the U. S. Entomological Commission, Washington, 1883, contains an excellent paper on the Hessian Fly, by Prof. A. S. Packard, p. 195-248, and in the appendix, p. 3-49, the translation of German papers by Loew, Wagner, Cohn, Koeppen, formerly not known by the Professor; also a reprint of my paper in the Can. Ent., Oct., 1880, “The Hessian Fly not imported from Europe.” The Professor accepts now (p. 238): That the Hessian Fly had appeared in the Eastern U. S. before the Revolutionary War, and that it could not have been introduced by the Hessians. He was not able to find in the files of the Pennsylvania Mercury and Philadelphia Packet some reference to the earlier occurrence of the H. Fly (App. p. 3).
page 82 note * The Italics are by Mr. H. Phillips.
page 84 note * The proof sheet of the minutes of the Am. Phil. Soc. has, p. 15:—
The Com. for Husbandry reported a paper on the Hessian Fly by Dr. Bond, which was read, and Dr. Bond was requested “to prepare it for the press, that it may be communicated to the public without loss of time.” See No, 4 of original papers. Mr. H. Phillips, jr., to whom I am indebted for being able to compare myself the proof sheet, remarks that Dr. Bond was one Dr. Thomas Bond (1712—March 26, 1784), or it may have been Dr. Phineas Bond (1717–1773). Neither was British Consul at Philadelphia.
page 85 note * This edition is always quoted by me.
page 88 note * This Mr. Bond is not the Dr. Bond quoted before in the minutes of the Amer, Philosoph. Soc. I cannot find out anything more about him.
