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that Lugger made some of the drawings in the rough, to which 

 Dr. Riley simply contributed the finishing touches and his 

 initials. 



One of the draughtsmen who should be given first rank as re- 

 gards the value of work accomplished, and honest, sincere effort in 

 the delineation of insects, was Dr. George Marx, who acted as Dr. 

 C. V. Riley's illustrator from 1878 to 1883 (excepting 1X79 SO, 

 when J. H. Comstock was entomologist). 



Dr. George Marx was born in Laubach, Germany, June 22, 

 1838, and died at Washington, D. C., January 3, 1895. He was 

 educated at Darmstadt, where he became interested in botany 

 and graduated in pharmacy at Giessen sometime previous to 1 860, 

 during which year he came to America. t'pon the outbreak of the 

 Civil War he enlisted as a private in the 8th New York Volun- 

 teers, but was soon afterward transferred to the medical corps as 

 assistant surgeon, because of his pharmaceutical and medical 

 knowledge. In 1862 he was wounded and disabled and after re- 

 covery engaged in the pursuit of his profession as a pharmacist in 

 New York and at Philadelphia. In 1 878 he was employed by the 

 United States Department of Agriculture as a natural history 

 draftsman, and began his work in Washington. Most of the 

 very excellent plates and figures published by the Division of 

 Entomology from 1878 to 1883 were the results of Dr. Marx' 

 labors. These include several fine colored plates, such as those 

 of the cotton worm, the boll worm, the army worm, etc., 

 although many of these bear the initials of C. V. Riley. It will 

 be a surprise to most entomologists to learn, for instance, that 

 such admirable figures as that of the walking-stick insects, Plate 

 III, of Riley's first report, the fine group figure of the clover leaf 

 weevil of his report for 1882-83, and many other excellent 

 illustrations, which have been reproduced again and again in 

 later years, and credited to Dr. Riley, were in reality the work 

 of Dr. Marx but which were calmly appropriated by Dr. Riley 

 without a word of apology. It seems more than likely that this 

 was done with perfect honesty on Riley's part who doubtless 

 regarded the action as entirely within his rights. 



Miss Lilly Sullivan, who was a protege of Dr. Riley's, after 

 the death of Dr. Marx took up the work of illustrating the vari- 

 ous reports and bulletins issued by the entomologist. What 

 appears to be the first of Miss Sullivan's illustrative work 

 appears in Dr. Wiley's Report for the year 1882, which contains 

 two plates in color bearing Miss Sullivan's name. One of these 

 shows a group of the Lepidopterous enemies of the cabbabge 

 plant and the other, some of the principal insect enemies of the 

 larch and spruce. A long series of drawings in black and white 

 subsequently came from Miss Sullivan's pencil, among the most 

 excellent of which are those contained in Howard and Marlatt's 

 notable work entitled "The Principal House-hold Insects of the 



