PROCE 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



VOL. 23 APRIL 1921 No. 4 



ENTOMOLOGICAL DRAWINGS AND DRAUGHTSMEN: THEIR 



RELATION TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOMIC 



ENTOMOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES.' 



Bv W. R. WALTON. 



I have chosen this title as the subject of my address, not 

 because I felt especially competent to speak authoritatively 

 upon it, but knowing that the society would expect a communi- 

 cation on some subject related to entomology, with which I 

 might be supposed to be more familiar than most of you, I have 

 selected one with which many were likely to be unacquainted, 

 with the idea that you might be led to believe that I really knew 

 something about it. Seriously speaking, however, I have been 

 largely influenced in my selection of this subject by the feeling 

 that many workers in entomological illustrative art have not 

 received the notice, or the praise, which their efforts toward the 

 advancement of entomology in this country have deserved. 

 This, it has seemed to me, was particularly true of the earlier 

 workers in this field, many of whom accomplished most remark- 

 able work, but whose names, for the most part, have been allowed 

 to lapse into unmerited oblivion. It has been the aim, therefore, 

 in the preparation of the present paper, to collate the most 

 easily available records regarding the personalities and accom- 

 plishments of these pioneers, together with certain relevant 

 (and possibly some irrelevant) remarks on this and kindred 

 subjects. In the preparation of this paper I have been greatly 

 aided by suggestions and notes supplied by various members 

 of the staff of the Biyeau of Entomology, and especially those 

 supplied by Dr. L. O. Howard, Dr. \<\ H. Chittenden and Mr. 

 E. A. Schwarz. Dr. Henry Skinner has very kindly furnished a 

 personal note regarding Mrs. Mary Peart, and in the biblio- 

 graphical work my assistant, Mr. J. S. \Yade, together with Miss 

 Mabel Colcord and the Bureau Library staff, have been of the 

 greatest assistance. I am greatly indebted also to Mr. Theo- 

 dore E. Bolton of the Congressional Library staff for the use 

 of manuscript notes which he generously contributed. 



Psychology tells us that all sensory experiences in man 

 somehow are mentally preserved; that in reality we never forget 

 anything and that the question of whether a person be clever or 



'Presidential address, presented at the January meeting, \')ll. 



