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much which might otherwise have been written here would be 

 but a repetition of what has already been published in many 

 places. At this time and in this place, therefore, we need give 

 but the barest summary of the facts of his life, dwelling, as we 

 have already done, upon his services to our own Society, and 

 calling attention to a few points in his career which have not 

 elsewhere been brought out. 



He was born at Chelsea, London, England, September 18, 

 1843, and received his education in England and later in France 

 and Germany. At the age of 17 he emigrated to America, 

 where he settled on a farm in Illinois. His first contributions to 

 entomological literature appeared in 1863, in the columns of the 

 Prairie Farmer, of Chicago. As editor of the entomological 

 department of this journal he resided in Chicago until 1868. 

 During this residence he made the acquaintance of Benjamin D. 

 Walsh, a friendship which resulted unquestionably in a power 

 ful influence upon his future career. In 1868 he was appointed 

 State Entomologist of Missouri and continued to serve in this 

 capacity until 1876, when he came to Washington to assume the 

 office of Chief of the U. S. Entomological Commission, an or 

 ganization created by Act of Congress, approved March 3, 1877. 

 Early in 1878 he was appointed Entomologist to the U. S. De 

 partment of Agriculture, and, with the intermission of the years 

 i879-'So, he continued to fill this office until 1894. By deposit 

 ing his private collection of insects in the U. S. National Museum 

 in iSSo, be became founder of the Department of Insects of that 

 institution. In 1886 he gave the collection to the Museum and 

 was appointed Honorary Curator of the Department. In 1889 

 he was appointed by the President of the United States an Ex 

 pert Commissioner to the Paris Exposition and Representative 

 of the Department of Agriculture. In 1892 he was appointed 

 Biologist of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station. 



It is scarcely a matter of wonder that under the constant strain 

 of these multifarious duties his health began to be seriously 

 impaired, and in May, 1894, he resigned his most onerous office, 

 that of Entomologist to the U. S. Department of Agriculture. 

 His energy and love for work, however, were not broken, and 

 in the secluded rooms of the U. S. National Museum, undisturbed 



