THE STORY OF AN ENTOMOLOGIST 



terms of the Award read, "For distinguished services to Agri- 

 culture." That is virtually the same wording as that of the First 

 Medal Award of the New York Farmers, which came to me 

 in 1929. People sometimes smile when they hear or read of this 

 last organization. There isn't a real old-fashioned farmer among 

 them. They are nearly all prominent New Yorkers who own 

 large estates and carry on some especial work like stock breeding 

 and other things of that kind. Chauncey M. Depew was at one 

 time its president. The organization gives dinners through the 

 winter, and usually invites some well-known expert to address 

 them. I have been told that in the old days they used to chaff 

 the speaker, and I remember that once Logan Waller Page was 

 asked to talk to them about good roads. He had been warned 

 in advance and rather forestalled chaff by his opening remarks. 

 He told me that he said on rising, "I am perfectly familiar with 

 the character of this organization. I know of the great things 

 that you have done for agriculture. To take only one example, I 

 believe that your experiments in watering stock have been of 

 enormous benefit to American agriculture." 



The announcement of the Capper Award came during my 

 last month in Washington, and although it was a great prize, 

 it was only one of many gratifying things that happened during 

 those last days. They gave me a big dinner at the Cosmos Club. 

 At this there was room for men only, so a lot of the wives of 

 members arranged another dinner for me, at which I was the 

 only man present. Then came a letter from a stranger, Colonel 

 Charles E. Davis of Honolulu, stating that he understood that 

 I was going to France and inviting me to go to Europe via 

 Honolulu and the western route as his guest, urging me, inci- 

 dentally, to stay in Honolulu with him as long as I could. 

 Naturally, I accepted, and began to make inquiries about my 

 future host. One day I received a call at my office from a very 



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