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1874. After graduation, however, he returned to Washington and 

 stayed with Glover until Professor Riley came in June, 1878. After 

 that Dodge was placed in charge of the museum of the Department, 

 and later hecame an exi:>ert on fibers, writing extensively on this sub- 

 ject for Department publications. He was a man of literary attain- 

 ments ; wrote at least one novel, and contributed to magazines. In the 

 early days of the magazine known as Outing he was for some time 

 its editor. He assisted Glover in his general work and helped him to 

 write his later reports. He was enthusiastic about entomology, but 

 never went very far. Mr. Glover told Professor Comstock and me, 

 when we called on him in 1879, that Dodge was a man of great 

 enthusiasm and planned many important entomological tasks, none 

 of which he completed, and in fact none of which he carried very far. 

 I remember especially that Glover said, with a chuckle, that Dodge 

 among other things planned a monograph of the grasshoppers of the 

 United States, but never went further than to write an imposing title 

 page. 



Nevertheless, Dodge founded and was the principal editor of a 

 useful little magazine known as Field and Forest which was the organ 

 of the Potomac-Side Naturalists' Club. In this magazine he pub- 

 lished, among other things, a number of interesting notes on insects, 

 nearly all of a practical character. The " Bibliography of Economic 

 Entomology " lists thirty-three such articles, most of them in Field 

 and Forest but a few in agricultural newspapers and three in the 

 Canadian Entomologist. It is of record also that he described Arctia 

 ivilliamsii, n. sp. from the Rocky Mountains in 1871 ; and this species 

 still holds. 



Dodge married a New Haven lady, Miss Mira Reab, who was an 

 artist ; and after marriage he assumed a distinctly artistic pose. He 

 lived in Washington for many years and later in New Haven. 



The Honorable William G. LeDuc was Commissioner of Agricul- 

 ture at the time Glover retired. The magazine Field and Forest was 

 sent out by Dodge from the Department during the first few months 

 of Commissioner LeDuc's regime. It is a very interesting example of 

 the tendency of a certain type of Euroi:>ean to misunderstand Ameri- 

 can and English addresses, and of their inveterate tendency to per- 

 petuate mistakes, that for many years European exchanges for this 

 magazine came to the Department addressed " M. le Due de Field et 

 Foret." Once, in 1879, I called Professor Comstock's attention to 

 this, when he was annoyed because certain European periodicals had 

 spelled his name C-o-r-n-s-t-a-l-k ! I think he felt better after I told 

 him that such mistakes were common. 



