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Maryland, entitled " The Development and Present Status of Ento- 

 mological Courses in American Colleges and Universities " (Jour- 

 nal of Economic Entomology, December, 1928, pp. 871-877). 



Doctor Smith points out that after C. V. Riley lectured at the Kan- 

 sas State Agricultural College in the college year 1870-71, Prof. 

 B. F. Mudge lectured on economic entomology in the college year 

 1871-72.^ Doctor Smith also calls attention to the fact that Rev. J. G. 

 Morris published in the Journal of Science and Arts for 1846 an arti- 

 cle entitled " Contribution Toward a History of Entomology in the 

 United States," in which he stated that, in addition to Harris' lectures 

 at Harvard, Professor Adams had lectured at Middlebury and he 

 himself at the Pennsylvania College, Gettysburg. The lectures by 

 Adams and Morris were obviously, of course, not of an economic 

 character. Mr. Knight refers to Townend Glover's professorship of 

 natural history in the Maryland Agricultural College to which we have 

 already referred, but states that his work was largely if not wholly 

 along other lines. Mr. Knight also reminds us that Thomas Say 

 taught at the University of Pennsylvania at a certain time and that he 

 was " Professor of Natural History." He adds, " It is hard to imagine 

 Say occupying the chair of natural history and not teaching insect 

 study." 



The founding of the agricultural colleges under the Morrill Act 

 in the late i86o's was of course responsiiile for the real beginning of 

 the teaching of economic entomology, but there were no positions to 

 be filled by entomologists except those of teachers, and the demand 

 for teachers was very small. The economic entomology that was 

 taught by these early men was intended for the most part to train men 

 to meet insect problems in the practice of agriculture. In other words, 

 this training was given to men who expected- to be farmers. 



When, how^ever, the so-called Hatch z^ct creating the State Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Stations was passed by Congress in 1888 there 

 was an immediate demand for entomological workers at the Experi- 

 ment Stations. There were not enough trained research men in ento- 

 mology to meet the demand. The places were filled by men who had 

 been teaching entomology, in a few cases, and by others who had had 



' In a later paper by Prof. G. A. Dean, entitled " Entomology at the Kansas 

 State Agricultural College" (seen in MS. by the writer), it is shown that since 

 Doctor Smith wrote this paper it was discovered that a course entitled " Insects 

 Injurious to Vegetation" was first given at the Kansas institution in 1866 to 

 1867 by Prof. B. F. Mudge. He repeated this course until 1870-71, when Doctor 

 Riley gave the lectures, as also in 1871-72. It was then taken up again by Pro- 

 fessor Mudge. In 1873 J. S. Whitman taught entomology, and continued for 

 six years, being succeeded by E. A. Popenoe. 



