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ularly in this connection since it represents him in the full 

 maturity of his youthful vigor, at a time when his energy was 

 unimpaired and his enthusiasm unabated, and at a time, too, when 

 the publication of seven of his Missouri Reports had already 

 marked him as a leader in entomological research and as fore 

 most in economic work. The photograph from which it was 

 reproduced was taken August 10, 1875, at Detroit, Michigan, at 

 the time of the meeting of the American Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. 



Enough has not been said of Dr. Riley's social qualities. 

 Away from his work he was the most approachable and genial 

 of men, and this side of his character reached its highest plane 

 perhaps at the meetings of this Society. At the close of our 

 stated program it is our custom to spend an hour in general con 

 versation, and here one saw one of the most delightful phases of 

 his character. Official cares were thrown aside and all the geni 

 ality of his nature came to the front. It is probable that the 

 picture of Riley which will last longest in the minds of most of 

 us will show him seated at the head of his own hospitable table 

 at some one of 'the many meetings of the Society held at his 

 house, discussing in his versatile way almost any subject from 

 politics to ethics, his face beaming with animation and good 

 humor. 



Thus it is as a genial companion, as well as the founder of 

 the Society, its first President, and its most prominent member, 

 that the Entomological Society of Washington will ever mourn 

 the loss of Charles Valentine Riley. 



OCTOBER 10, 1895. 



President Ashmead was in the chair and the following mem 

 bers and visitors were present : Messrs. Gill, Uhler, Patton, 

 Schwarz, Hubbard, Marlatt, Heidemann, Chittenden, Benton, 

 Judd, E. F. Smith, Linell, Schoenborn, Stiles, Howard, Waite, 

 O. F. Cook, Henry Ulke, G. H. Hicks, and W. H. Fox. 



Mr. Hubbard read the following paper : 



