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can applied entomology. Ho was for a time connected with agri- 

 cultural experiment stations in Illinois, Indiana, and ( )hio. and e\^en- 

 tually came to Washington in 1904, where he hecame the head of the 

 section of Cereal and T'orage Crop Insects in the Bureau of Ento- 

 mology, dying in harness in 1916. He was a prolific writer and an 

 excellent ohserver. Some of his papers were of much importance. 

 One of the most striking results of his studies was the discovery 

 (while he was a field agent of the Federal entomological service) of 

 parthenogenesis, dimorphism, and alternation of generations in the 

 genus Isosoma. Webster's bibliography covers rather more than 600 

 titles. One of the very best of his papers is Bulletin 42 of the Divi- 

 sion of Entomology, entitled " Some Insects Attacking the Stems of 

 (growing Wheat, Rye, Barley and Oats, with Methods of Prevention 

 and Suj^pression." He was instrumental in the calling of the first 

 convention for the consideration of a national horticultural cjuaran- 

 line law. It was the beginning of the agitation which resulted in the 

 passage of the Federal Florticultural Eaw in August, 1912, 15 years 

 after that first convention. 



Prof. T. J. Burrill, most of whose life was spent as a teacher 

 of botany and phytopathology, taught entomology in his early days 

 in Illinois, and jniblished a paper on the white grub in the Cultivator 

 and Country Gentleman for August, 1874. Later he wrote about the 

 pear leaf blister-mite and the Lombardy poplar borer. 



Prof. E. W. Claypole was an Englishman l)y birth, a very culti- 

 vated and charming man, who taught at Antioch College in the early 

 seventies, and in 1874 ])ublished an article on the spring canker- 

 worm. He published a few other entomological articles in later 

 years, and eventually moved to California. I had the i>leasure of 

 meeting him at Pasadena early in the present century, and he died 

 there a little later. 



A series of very good reports on injurious insects appeared in the 

 Annual Rei)orts of the Iowa State Horticultural Society between 

 1874 and 1877. The author was A. W. HofTmeister. They seem to 

 have had a committee on entomology in the Society in those days, 

 and Professor Bessey, whose work is referred to in a previous para- 

 graph, made the reports of that committee for two years and was 

 succeeded by Doctor. Hofifmeister. 



H. G. Hubbard, whose first note was published in this year 1874. 

 was then a senior at Harvard who had been working in the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology. Largely due to the influence of Hagen's 

 teaching and his association with E. A. Schwarz, he became a great stu- 

 dent of entomology and did some magnificent work in both pure and 



