CONTENTS 



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Preface i'i 



Introduction i 



Part I. North America 



United States 9 



Early history and early American writers 9 



Thaddeus William Harris 30 



Townend Glover (and his biographer, C. R. Dodge) 35 



Asa Fitch, the first State Entomologist 43 



Data concerning Fitch's New York Reports 46 



Benjamin Dann Walsh 50 



Charles Valentine Riley 53 



John Henry Comstock 57 



Hermann August Hagen 61 



Something about insecticides 63 



Journals or periodicals on economic entomology 65 



The teaching of entomology in the United States "0 



The Rocky Mountain locust, or the western grasshopper, and the 



United States Entomological Commission 78 



Entomology under the Federal Government, 1878 to 1894 83 



Work in the States, 1878 to 1888 loi 



The Hatch Act and the State Agricultural Experiment Stations.. 105 



The Association of Economic Entomologists 109 



The striking events of the last decade of the nineteenth century. . 115 



The gipsy moth 1 1 5 



The San Jose scale 119 



The cotton boll weevil 124 



Insects and disease 132 



Quarantine against injurious insects 134 



Fake insecticides and insecticide legislation 142 



Economic entomology in the southern United States 147 



Economic entomology in California 151 



Later work of the Federal Bureau 158 



Addendum : an interesting comparison 171 



Later work in the States 1 75 



State departments of agriculture and State societies having officials 



paid by the State 177 



The salaries of entomologists 179 



Canada 182 



Mexico 190 



Part II. Europe 



Preface 201 



Old European writers on entomology 201 



Early European economic entomology 207 



The Phylloxera of the grape and its influence on European applied 



entomology 212 



Great Britain 216 



Ireland 231 



V 



