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Townsend Glover. This indefatigable worker has not only described, but very 

 fully illustrated, many of our most dreaded insect foes, drawing not only the in- 

 sect but the plant or part of the plant liable to attach, and what is more surpris- 

 ing, he has done all his own drawing and engraving. It is to be deeply re- 

 gretted that the Department of Agriculture, so busy in distributing noxious 

 insects through its often worthless seeds (for several of the most injurious in- 

 sects in our college cabinet I am thus indebted to the Department of Agricul- 

 ture) can not set in motion those blocks so beautifully engraved which remain 

 idly corded in Mr. Glover's study, and which are so full of promise. 



The various societies of our country, agricultural and horticultural, are also 

 doing good work in this direction, developing new truths through the careful 

 observation of their many intelligent workers, and especially disseminating 

 the information already gleaned by others. It is gratifying to receive so many 

 evidences that our own society takes high rank in this respect, as it has re- 

 ceived high and deserving praise for this part of its work. 



Our Agricultural Colleges, too, are doing their part in this direction. Both 

 Iowa and our own college have special professors of entomology, while ento- 

 mology Jippears in the course of several others. In these colleges the practical 

 bearing of entomology receives, of course, a generous share of attention. In 

 our college all students who pursue the course spend nearly a half year in this 

 study, which, of course, includes scientific and practical apiculture. In the 

 museum there is first, a faunal collection of our State ; secondly, a scientific 

 collection, containing one species for each genus ; and thirdly, a practical col- 

 lection, containing plainly labeled specimens of both onr injurious and bene- 

 ficial species, the label also denoting where and how each works its injuries or 

 benefits. These specimens are always open to inspection, not only by our 

 students, but also by all who are interested in the subject. It is the desire too 

 to conduct the apiary in the most scientific and approved manner, and all the 

 students are brought personally to engage in the various manipulations re- 

 quired in successful bee-keeping. As a proof that these colleges are able expo- 

 nents in this important work, I am most happy to relate that during the past 

 year three of the graduates of our college have published quite extensive re- 

 ports on this subject, two others have lectured several times before farmer's 

 clubs, which lectures were afterward published in the local papers, while still 

 another occupied the position as entomologist of the orchard committee, sent 

 out by this society. And yet another of our students was employed to take sole 

 possession of one of the most extensive apiaries in the United States. 



Having thus treated so fully of the history of economic entomology in our 

 country, it is hardly necessary to consider its progress, as gratifying progress is 

 implied in the history. When we remember the lack of means, sympathy, and 

 appreciation received by the great pioneer (Dr. Harris), and then consider that 

 to-day several States have live, active entomologists, well supported and appre- 

 ciated; that several of our agricultural colleges are forming a very hot-bed for 

 the growth and nourishment of the science and its application; that the 

 practical entomology of the United States has already quite a library, though 

 the work of but a few earnest students ; that our agricultural a nd horticultural 

 press are fully alive to our needs in this direction, and last but by no means 

 least, that societies all over our land, composed of energetic, practical, intelli- 

 gent men, are giving earnest heed to the subject, surely we need nothing fur- 

 ther to assure us that the lever of self-interest is already at work, and has thus 

 early begotten a considerable progress, which bespeaks far better and more tell- 

 ing labor in future. 



