CONTENTS 



small towns, how it centers around the churches — Small town church 

 life transferred to large cities. 



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Work on the University farm and in the library — Departure for 

 Washington — Visit in New York on the way — Journey from New 

 York to Washington, and the old train of mules in Baltimore — 

 J. McK. Borden and his stepfather and mother. Colonel and Mrs. 

 Carter — First impressions of the old Department of Agriculture — 

 First glimpse of C. V. Riley — ^Theodor Pergande and his attempts 

 to write fine English — Disappointment at being used first as a clerk — 

 The first manual of silk culture — The system in vogue at that time 

 of credit to assistants — The resignation of C. V. Riley and the ap- 

 pointment of J. H. Comstock — The way the Comstocks and I lived 

 and worked — First field trip — Congressional influence and appoint- 

 ments to public service — The consternation of office-holders at Cleve- 

 land's first election — Clerks' contributions to campaign funds — The 

 great change with the coming of the Civil Service Law — Talks with 

 General Black and John R. Proctor on state representation — Begin- 

 ning of my study of the parasitic Hymenoptera — C. H. Fernald and 

 his summer in Washington — The way he handled beggars — A story 

 about Controller Trenholm — Garfield's election and Riley's reappoint- 

 ment — Doubt about staying in Washington — Sent on a field trip to 

 Illinois — The sight of Garfield's assassination in the railway station — 

 Trip to Savannah, Georgia, to study rice insects — Colonel Scriven 

 and an anecdote of the fall of Savannah during the Civil War — A 

 somewhat earlier trip to Louisiana, with anecdotes of a travelling 

 Englishman — His account of the journey in his book — Investigation 

 of sugar cane insects — Joe Jefferson's place in the Bayou Teche 

 country — Somewhat later field trip to Huntsville, Alabama — Ex- 

 traordinary work of parasites on the Army Worm — The 1884 stay in 

 New Orleans — Victor Bero and his restaurant — Later work under 

 Riley — ^The beginning of the journal "Insect Life" — The introduc- 

 tion of the Australian Ladybird into California — The disputed credit 

 for this work — More about life in Washington — Music and a sudden 

 cessation in the pleasure of listening to it — Riley's resignation and 

 my appointment as Chief in 1894 — Early studies in Medicine — The 



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