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regarding the personalities or achievements of the earlier 

 draughtsmen. Too often their work has been absorbed or sub- 

 merged without any, or with but scant mention, in the reputa- 

 tion of the entomologist who produced the text accompanying 

 the illustrations. "Sunk without trace," as a notorious 

 Teutonic diplomat has put it. There is no reason to believe 

 that such occurrences were always intentional as doubtless this 

 was not the case in many instances, but the fact that these over- 

 sights did occur with great frequency argues, to my mind, a 

 lack of appreciation of the real and valuable service performed 

 by the draughtsman and which it is my purpose to point out in the 

 present paper. Here and there a few lines of biography regard- 

 ing them have been penned in works of biography or entomo- 

 logical publications, to remind us that they were at least human 

 beings, and a few of the most prominent men, such as John 

 Abbot, T. R. Peale, and Townend Glover have received at 

 the pen of some kindly writer like George Ord, the Rev. J. G. 

 Morris, Charles R. Dodge, or Dr. Henry Skinner, a portion of 

 the recognition which was due them. Dry and defective indeed 

 would be most of the standard works on American entomology 

 in the absence of the excellent illustrations which have served 

 so well to fix them indelibly in our memories. Say, Harris, 

 Packard, and others too numerous to mention would be poor 

 indeed if robbed of the fine illustrations which adorn their pages, 

 but nevertheless very little is included in most of these works to 

 tell us aught of the -persons who contributed this important part 

 of the task. Compare, for instance, the early editions of Harris' 

 "Insects Injurious to Vegetation," with the later editions of 

 1862-63, or better still, with the handsomely colored Mint 

 edition, in which appear the fine plates drawn by Antoine 

 Sonrel. The enhanced interest and value conferred by these 

 illustrations is not merely obvious but truly astonishing. The 

 Rev. J. G. Morris, in his History of Entomology (1846), remarks 

 the absence of illustrations in the then existing editions of the 

 book as a very serious fault in Dr. Harris' work. 



As in the case of other branches ot natural science, there are 

 two very distinct types of intellect attracted to entomology. 

 One of these is the purely investigational mind, actuated by a 

 sense of curiosity or desire to know and to analyze or interpret 

 what it discovers. The other has its origin principally in the 

 emotions, that is to say, an appreciation of the beautiful in 

 nature and art. Each struggles in its own way to tell what it 

 sees; the one by means of that most artificial of all human 

 conventions, the printed page; the other by the much more 

 primitive but natural medium of a visual representation of the 

 subject. Neither can be entirely successful without the aid of 

 the other, but because of their fundamentally different view- 

 points, neither understands fully the meaning or importance of 



