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very useful compendium. Riley himself thought of publishing a vol- 

 ume of this general character, but never did so. As a matter of fact, 

 the text of Mrs. Treat's book is very largely in Riley's words. Reex- 

 amining it recently, I noticed first some of his extremely character- 

 istic expressions, and next that Mrs. Treat is occasionally referred 

 to in the third person. Then, comparing closely, I found that whole 

 pages were copied without quotation marks from Riley's Missouri 

 Reports. The fact that the author "largely availed herself" of 

 Riley's writings is mentioned in both the publisher's and the author's 

 prefaces, but surely the authorship of the book should at least have 

 been stated to be Riley and Treat. None of the illustrations are origi- 

 nal, and the original sources are not mentioned. Most of them are 

 from Riley, and I think that the publishers (Orange Judd Company) 

 bought the electrotypes from him. 



The American Entomologist, a publication about which we must 

 give some details later, was responsible for the appearance of a num- 

 ber of new writers at that period (1869-1870). Prof. J. Parish 

 Stelle, of Savannah, Tennessee, was the author of a note on Cicadas 

 in the January number of that journal (1870). He wrote a num- 

 ber of articles that were published in this magazine, and later pub- 

 lished a number of very interesting articles in southern newspapers in 

 regard to the cotton caterpillar and other entomological topics. In 

 his later life he was agricultural editor of the Mobile Register, in 

 which some of his articles were published. 



In the same year (1870) Dr. J. A. Lintner, who was to become a 

 very prolific and important writer, published his first paper in an 

 Albany newspaper. It related to the imported cabbage worm. Lintner 

 proved to be an important figure in the development of economic 

 entomology in the United States. He was of German descent and 

 was originally a manufacturer of woolen goods. As early as 1853 

 he began to collect insects, and published his first entomological arti- 

 cle in 1862. In 1868 he became a zoological assistant in the State 

 Museum at Albany, and was put in charge of the entomological work 

 in 1874. In 1880 it became necessary for the then Governor of New 

 York to appoint a State Entomologist to take up the work which 

 Dr. Asa Fitch had followed until his illness and death. Doctor Lint- 

 ner received the appointment. 



I have never told this story, but, as it happens, one of my uncles 

 was a wealthy New Yorker, interested in politics, and a member of 

 the Union League Club. I had known Governor Cornell from child- 

 hood, and my uncle wrote me and asked me whether he should rec- 

 ommend me for the Albany position. I had then been in Washington 



