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less than two years ; I knew Doctor Lintner's high standing and 

 sound work, and wrote to my uncle that he should not make the sug- 

 gestion since the place belonged to Doctor Lintner. 



From 1870 until his death in Florence, Italy, in 1898, Lintner sent 

 out a perfect stream of publications. His bibliography covers more 

 than 900 titles. It is true that very many of these were newspaper 

 articles, although published in journals of high class like the Rural 

 New Yorker and the Country Gentleman, but many of them were 

 important ; and his larger publications, notably his " Entomological 

 Contributions " published by the New York State Cabinet of Natu- 

 ral History, contained very many separate articles of high rank, and 

 his twelve reports on the injurious and other insects of the State of 

 New York are models. He had no laboratory facilities (all of his 

 work was done in his office) and original investigations in applied 

 entomology were almost impossible. So these reports are largely com- 

 pilations and the results of correspondence and of such rather limited 

 observations as he could make in the field. Nevertheless they are 

 models. No other reports that have been published excel them in care 

 of preparation, lucidity of style, bibliographical detail, fullness of 

 indices, and general consultability. When Lintner wrote about an 

 insect, it was certain that he had overlooked nothing that had pre- 

 viously been done, and his papers were the latest words on that 

 topic. He was a man of very fine appearance, an impressive speaker 

 and lecturer, and of great personal charm, dignified, well dressed, in 

 fact a man who by his personality helped much to dignify the pro- 

 fession. It always seemed to me that Harris must have been much 

 of the same type. I said as much to Lintner once, and it embarrassed 

 him greatly. He answered in very courteous words, but the idea I 

 gained was that he thought me foolishly fulsome. 



In 1871 the first economic papers by C. R. Dodge and A. R. Grote 

 were published. C. R. Dodge is mentioned in the later account of 

 Townend (jlover, as his biogra])her. A. R. Grote was a famous tax- 

 onomist and broad naturalist, but devoted most of his time to the 

 study of the moths in the family Noctuidae. His principal invasion 

 of the economic field centered around the southern cotton caterpillar, 

 about which he wrote five articles between 1871 and 1875. He was a 

 strong advocate of the migration theory in regard to this insect. Dur- 

 ing this period he came to Washington and advocated a govern- 

 ment appropriation for the investigation of this insect. Later he 

 wrote seven other articles of an economic bearing, the principal one 

 relating to the pine Nephopteryx. It is interesting to note that in 

 1879 he vigorously opposed the use of Paris green as an insecticide. 



