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It was founded in the days of A. J. Cook, when C. F. Baker, E. O. 

 Essig, and D. L. Crawford were working at Pomona College under 

 him and with him. I visited the College in those days, and never have 

 I seen a more active enthusiasm in work or a more energetic com- 

 pany. Doctor Cook himself had removed his long beard and looked 

 and acted like an ambitious youth in his twenties. 



The Journal of the New York Entomological Society, now (1929) 

 in its 37th volume, is not economic, and belongs rather to the class 

 of society proceedings, but it has contained very many important 

 articles and is always consulted by the economic workers. 



The Florida Entomologist, now in its 13th volume, is also the offi- 

 cial organ of a more or less local society (the Florida Entomological 

 Society) ; but its officers and members are largely interested in eco- 

 nomic entomology and many of its articles have had a distinct eco- 

 nomic bearing. 



The Pan- Pacific Entomologist (now in its fifth volume) is pub- 

 lished by the Pacific Coast Entomological Society in cooperation with 

 the California Academy of Sciences. Its papers so far have been 

 mainly technical and largely taxonomic, but a number of admirable 

 papers on topics relating to the biology of insects have been published. 



There are other publications of local societies that indicate the 

 broad interest that is being taken in entomology, both pure and 

 applied. The Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washing- 

 ton (D. C.) have been published since 1884. The Bulletin of the 

 Brooklyn Entomological Society was started in 1878 and continued 

 to be published until 1885. Its publication was then discontinued 

 until 1912, l)ut since that date it has appeared regularly. 



The Teaching of Entomology in the United States 



In 1872 the condition of the country in regard to economic ento- 

 mology was rather primitive. Harris had completed his work (his 

 last paper was published in i860). Fitch's Fourteenth Report ap- 

 peared that year. Walsh had just died. A. J. Cook had just begun 

 to write. Riley's Fourth Report, on the insects of Missouri, had just 

 been published. LeBaron's second report, on the insects of Illinois, 

 was published that year. Packard had published his second annual 

 report on the injurious and beneficial insects of Massachusetts. The 

 teaching of economic entomology was about to begin. 



Comstock was a sophomore at Cornell University, and a year later 

 began to give lectures before his fellow students as a student assis- 

 tant to Burt G. Wilder who was Professor of Zoology and Physi- 



