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very well-known parasitologist. He was a man of infinite 

 humor and of very broad reading and general culture. His 

 books and magazine articles are full of delightful tales. I have 

 elsewhere^ quoted some lines that he wrote me on the back 

 of an invitation he once sent me to dine with him at his club 

 in London, and they are worth repeating. He said, "You may 

 not have heard that the hookworm has recently been found in 

 Cornwall. This suggests the following lines: 



If Cornish saints worked miracles. 



The Bishop of this Diocese 

 Would quickly rid the Cornish mines 



Of Ankylostomyiasis. 



The last time I saw dear old Shipley was after he had been 

 knighted and had been sent during the World War to the 

 United States as the head of a British commission, the purpose 

 of which, as I understand it, was to give Americans a more 

 accurate view of conditions and to hasten the entrance of the 

 United States into the conflict. Although his health was poor, 

 he made some capital speeches (I heard one of them at the 

 New Willard Hotel). He died not long afterward. 



In July, 1912, the Royal Society of London celebrated its two 

 hundred and fiftieth anniversary, and invited the principal 

 universities and scientific organizations of the world to send 

 delegates. By great good fortune, I was appointed the delegate 

 of the Washington Academy of Sciences. There were about 

 three hundred foreign delegates in attendance, twenty-four of 

 whom came from the United States. 



The Royal Society of London is the oldest scientific society 



^History of Applied Entomology, p. 485 (Smithsonian Pub.). 



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