CONTENTS 



old Colombian Medical College— A. F. A. King and his early ideas 

 about malaria — The old faculty — A hospital anecdote — Later medical 

 studies and later vivid interest in medical work. 



Chapter III page 57 



Other occupations in Washington in the early days — The Scientific 

 Societies and their beginnings — The old high bicycle and the Capitol 

 Bicycle Club — The men who rode — Other bicycle clubs — S. S. Mc- 

 Clure, Joseph Pennell — L. Warren Seely and one of his impromptu 

 poems — Whist at the White House — Washington at that time — Con- 

 gress — Blaine and Lamar — Logan, Vorhees and Edmunds — The pro- 

 portion of college bred men in Congress — A debate on the Geological 

 and Topographical Surveys — E. C. Manners and misquotations — 

 Another congressional incident — J. D. Cox — Early appropriations; a 

 story about Congressman Hatch — Another about Senator Warner 

 Miller — Congressman Wadsworth and his son, the Senator — The 

 hearings before the Committee on Agriculture — The Boll Weevil and 

 the committee — Burleson and Lamb — Congressmen and field labora- 

 tories — Congressional and political influence and appointments — 

 William E. Chandler and the Cosmos Club — Uncle Joe Cannon's 

 remark about the Club — Further about the Riley administration — 

 Story of the Hop Plant-louse. 



Chapter IV page 75 



The simple and inexpensive living of the young government workers 

 in Washington in the early i88o's — The small salaries of the young 

 scientific men — Rare chances for outside work — "The Youths' Com- 

 panion" — "The Century Dictionary" — Elliot Coues — New words in 

 the Dictionary — My supposed knowledge of Sanskrit — "The Standard 

 Dictionary" and "The New International Encyclopedia" — President 

 Taylor of Vassar — First lecture without manuscript, a Vassar incident 

 — The Low^ell Institute — A St. Botolph Club experience with Wilton 

 Lockwood — Married life — The Onteora Club--The wives of the 

 scientific men in Washington. 



Chapter V ' page 90 



Early interest in the natural control of pests — Beginning of study of 

 parasites — Especial study of parasites of cosmopolitan insects — A 



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