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After two entomologically profitable years in Indianapolis, 

 Mr, Snodgrass in 19 17 decided to try his luck again in Washing- 

 ton, D. C, where he offered as an inducement his newly acquired 

 chart-making abilities. This appealed to Dr. Howard, who once more 

 hired him in the United States Department of Agriculture for an 

 assignment which paid $2,000 per year. Gradually, as the war work 

 became less important, he again bootlegged anatomy into the Bureau 

 and found it more in favor at that time. The entomologists seemed to 

 want his productions, and the Smithsonian Institution accepted his 

 papers for publication. 



During these years with the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 Snodgrass was assigned for several summers to work at Wallingford, 

 Conn., where he learned much about the life histories of apple insects. 

 Then he was transferred to a U.S.D.A. experiment station at Sligo, 

 Md., and later to a station near Silver Spring, Md. Finally he was 

 permanently quartered in the South Building of the U.S.D.A. in 

 Washington, D. C. 



On September 18, 1924, Mr. Snodgrass married Miss Ruth Mae 

 Hansford, a talented musician, endowed with beauty, charm, and 

 sparkling personality. The result, he says, is that he now has a wife, 

 two daughters, five grandchildren, and real-estate taxes. 



"The rest of my career is well known to the entomological public, 

 and need not be detailed." In this brief statement. Dr. Snodgrass has 

 summarized modestly his activities covering an additional 36 years of 

 continuous research from which 54 publications (26 to 79) have been 

 produced, and one more is in preparation. 



Among the numerous recognitions of his achievements is his 

 honorary degree of doctor of natural sciences conferred Novem- 

 ber 17, 1953, by the Eberhard-Karls-Universitat at Tiibingen through 

 the interest of Prof, Hermann Weber "as Master of Anatomy and 

 Morphology of Arthropods, in recognition of his services as original 

 researcher, as author of fundamental books, and an example to a 

 whole generation of morphologists." Other recognitions include his 

 election as honorary president of the Entomological Society of Wash- 

 ington and honorary member of the Entomological Society of 

 America, the New York Entomological Society, the Royal Entomo- 

 logical Society of London, Societe Entomologique de Belgique, So- 

 ciete Entomologique de France, Societe Entomologique d'figypte, 

 the Academy of Zoology of India, and the Sociedad Uruguaya de 

 Entomologia. 



Throughout his career, Dr. Snodgrass has been more interested in 

 the evolutionary changes and relationships of anatomical structures. 



