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and was admitted to the bar in 1879. But the practice of law 

 was not to his especial liking; and, as he himself once ex- 

 pressed it, "a fly on the wall was more interesting to him than 

 the case in hand." In 1884, after a four years' career as a 

 lawyer, he bade adieu to that vocation forever, and accepted 

 the appointment as Special Agent to the United States Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture at Washington under the late Dr. C. V. 

 Riley. In 1886 he became Assistant Curator of Entomology 

 in the United States National Museum, and in the three years 

 of his connection with that Institution published a number of 

 excellent papers and monographic works, chief among which 

 are his "Monograph of the Sphingidse of America north of 

 Mexico," "A Preliminary Catalogue of the Arctiidae of Tem- 

 perate North America," "A Revision of the Lepidopterous 

 Family Saturniidse," some of his "Contributions toward a 

 Monograph of the Family Noctuidse," and "Notes on the Spe- 

 cies of Lachnosterna of Temperate North America with 

 descriptions of New Species." 



In 1889 he resigned his post in the National Museum to ac- 

 cept a Professorship of entomology at Rutgers College, and to 

 become entomologist to the New Jersey Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station at New Brunswick, positions which he held until 

 the time of his death, and to which was added in 1894 the office 

 of State Entomologist of New Jersey. In these three capaci- 

 ties he brought honor and renown to the institutions he served. 

 His annual reports, which all told, form several bulky vol- 

 umes, are mines of information, and rank with the best ever 

 produced by any experiment station. His numerous bulletins 

 also represent a vast amount of original research along 

 economic lines. His "Contribution toward a Knowledge of 

 the Mouth Parts of the Diptera" (1890) set forth views on the 

 homologies of these organs quite different from those generally 

 accepted. 



In 1902 he became intensely interested in the work of the 

 extermination of mosquitoes which had been prosecuted with 

 marked success in various parts of the world, and he imme- 

 diately urged and secured from the legislature in 1903, under 



