Chapter VIII 



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HE Entomological Service at Washington grew rather won' 

 derfuUy. Prior to, say, 1890, it was considered a necessary service 

 but one that needed financially rather small support. Neverthe- 

 less, I do not wish to underestimate the results accomplished 

 with small funds and a limited number of workers. We eco- 

 nomic entomologists did some big things and laid the bases 

 for much bigger things. What we did attracted the attention 

 of practical men, and demands came from them to legislative 

 bodies to spend more money on the work. 



And then came in comparatively rapid succession the series 

 of events that we have already referred to, and that helped to 

 focus die attention of the world and especially, perhaps, the 

 people of the United States, on the subject of economic ento- 

 mology. Not since the Grapevine Phylloxera days in the late 

 i86o's and 1870's had there been so much excitement caused as 

 by the discovery of the San Jose scale in eastern United States 

 orchards in 1892, and the subsequent embargo of practically all 

 of the countries of the world against American fruit that was 

 started by a German proclamation in 1898. Then, too, the Gipsy 

 Moth had been discovered in America only two or three years 

 earlier, and in 1894 we became distressingly conscious of the 



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