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the entomologist in their future relations. The subject is not a 

 very agreeable one, and recalls to my mind the lines of an old 

 song as follows: 



"Now if you don't like it, it's nothing to me, 

 For I'm telling you things that I don't like to see." 



Right at this point I should like to introduce another subject 

 upon which something should be said, and this is the desirability 

 of having all major drawings signed by the person who makes 

 them. It seems to me quite as important that the author of a 

 drawing be recorded with his work as the author of a text or 

 even as the originator of a specific name in taxonomic zoology. 

 If the identity of the draughtsman be known, this alone often will 

 be sufficient to establish the accuracy of the work, and of 

 course the converse is obviously true, for, sad to relate, people 

 who do not realize their limitations will make drawings, and not 

 all of such illustrations are either reliable or ornamental. 



It is to be regretted that so little of an intimate biographic 

 character has been published relating to the entomologists of 

 America. It would, I believe, be difficult to name a profession 

 which is richer in the possession of quaint and interesting human 

 character (including, of course, the artist-entomologists) than 

 is ours; but in spite of this fact, most of the published biographic 

 sketches are largely devoid of purely human interest and deal 

 principally, if not exclusively, with the scientific work or attain- 

 ments of the persons involved. There is, as a rule, little in- 

 cluded that conveys to the reader even an inkling regarding the 

 human characteristics of the person who is the subject of the 

 sketch. A notable exception to this rule is the intensely inter- 

 esting and intimate picture of Townend Glover presented by 

 Mr. Charles Richards Dodge (Bui. 18, Old Series), excerpts 

 from which are given later on in this paper. 



The brief obituary notice of Benjamin D. Walsh (AMERICAN 

 ENTOMOLOGIST AND BOTANIST) written presumably by Dr. C. 

 V. Riley, abounds in that human quality of which I speak, but 

 leaves one with the feeling of having read the first chapter of a 

 good story that never can be finished. We have here, restricted 

 within the limits of four short pages, the mere outline of a 

 delightful character to whom many pages of similar text might 

 and should have been devoted. Would that we had more 

 biographers such as Mr. Dodge to picture for us other prominent 

 students of insect life who have gone before. Who of us, for 

 instance, would not delight in similarly intimate and complete 

 pictures of such celebrities as John Abbot, T. W. Harris, or 

 indeed even of a personage so recently departed as Dr. C. V. 

 Riley, whose personality has been but dimly delineated in any 

 published work, but who, judging from current tradition, 



