THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



more or less success for twenty-two years. Looking back, it 

 seems rather sure that no other experience could have been 

 better for me in broadening my scientific outlook, and that in 

 making the contacts which the position afforded, it helped the 

 Federal service in which I was engaged. For the next twenty- 

 two years the annual meeting was held in some city (usually 

 at a university), and these migrations covered the whole coun- 

 try. The association included among its members nearly all the 

 active working scientific men of the country, as well as a great 

 number of others interested in science or who wished to become 

 patrons of science in a small way. 



Many incidents connected with these meetings come to my 

 mind, and some of them may be told. 



After the Detroit meeting in 1898, a large number of us 

 went on to Toronto, where the annual meeting of the British 

 Association for the Advancement of Science was held during 

 the week following our meeting. The Toronto gathering was 

 a decided success. The meetings of the British Association have 

 always been more brilliant socially than ours. The Governor 

 General of Canada, Lord Aberdeen, was much in evidence, and 

 many distinguished men had crossed the Atlantic to be present. 

 Lord Kelvin and Lord Lister were there, as well as Sir John 

 Evans, the president of the Association for that year, and many 

 others of scarcely lesser note. As the newly-elected permanent 

 secretary of the American Association, I was given a seat on 

 the platform with the dignitaries at the public lectures. It was 

 in August, and it was very hot, so, ignoring form, I wore 

 my straw hat to these evening functions with my dinner dress. 

 On leaving the platform after the first lecture, I found myself 

 touching elbows with no less a person than Lord Lister, and 

 to my great joy I saw that he also had a straw hat. I told him 

 that I was much relieved to see this, and he put his arm around 



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