WHOLE VOL. APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY HOWARD I3 



crumpler (Acrobasis indiginella) . He continued to write for the 

 Prairie Farmer for many years uport all sorts of subjects relating to 

 economic entomology. Following the death of B. D. Walsh in 1869, 

 he was appointed State Entomologist of Illinois, and his first report 

 was published in 1871. He continued to publish in the Prairie 

 Farmer, but died shortly after the appearance of his Fourth Annual 

 Report in 1874. 



In 1852 an important article entitled " The Cotton Worm ; Its His- 

 tory, Character, Visitations, etc." by Dr. D. B. Gorham, appeared in 

 De Bow's Industrial Resources. It was a very competent account of 

 the natural history of Alabama argillacea, describing its principal 

 parasite and introducing the theory of the migration of this insect 

 from the South. It appears that this article had previously been 

 published in De Bow's Commercial Review for 1847 ^^^"^ i" ^^^ South- 

 ern Cultivator of the same year. 



zA-n important article was published in 1852, in the Southern 

 Planter (pp. 271-272), by Prof. J, L. Cabell of the University of 

 Virginia, which has apparently been overlooked by Henshaw in Part 

 IV of the " Bibliography of American Economic Entomology." It 

 is entitled " Joint-Worm," points out the existence of a parasite, and 

 demonstrates the fact that damage is actually done by " Eurytonia 

 hordei" which, since it belongs to a parasitic group, had been con- 

 sidered by many to be a parasite and not on any account to be consid- 

 ered a plant-feeder. The writer was familiar with the work of Harris 

 and of Fitch. The same volume of the Southern Planter contains 

 another article (a long one) by a close observer of the insects affect- 

 ing the wheat crop, who signs himself simply "Anon." 



The next writer in chronological order was Dr. W. I. Burnett, 

 a Boston physician who had gone south for his health and who wrote 

 about the cotton-worm and the cotton boll weevil independently, sug- 

 gesting the migration theory, and whose first article was published in 

 the Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History for Janu- 

 ary, 1854. 



In 1854 also appeared the first publication by Townend Glover, who 

 for so many years was Entomologist to the Federal agricultural ser- 

 vice. His first report, entitled " Insects Injurious and Beneficial to 

 Vegetation," was published in the Report of the U. S. Commissioner 

 of Patents for 1854, Agriculture, 1855. Glover's work deserves much 

 more detailed mention and will be considered subsequently. 



In 1857 F. G. Sanborn, of Massachusetts, began to write on eco- 

 nomic entomology. His first recorded paper was published in the 

 Fifth Annual Report of the Secretary of the Massachusetts State 



