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Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. He 

 also was a strong teacher and a good worker, but evidently was 

 thought to be a man for bigger things than entomology, and eventually 

 became President of the l^niversity of Tennessee, which jiosition he 

 still holds. 



The first apiwintee in Kentucky was Harrison Garman, a very well 

 trained man who had studied at Johns Hopkins in 1881 and 1882 and 

 who had been an assistant to Forbes in Illinois from 1883 to 1889. 



In West \'irginia teaching was done for many years by Dr. A. D. 

 Hopkins, -a man of no university training but of broad views and 

 much imagination combined with a strong sense of the practical. 



The happenings which will be mentioned on later pages, conspir- 

 ing as they did in the most extraordinary way to focus attention on 

 the importance of applied entomology, had of course a strong effect 

 on the teaching departments of the agricultural colleges and universi- 

 ties. It would be difficult to trace the growth of these departments as 

 the years have gone by, without a great deal of work, which hardly 

 seems necessary. As it happens, I had occasion in 1910 to make a 

 cursory study of the subject for use in an address given at the dedi- 

 cation of the Entomology and Zoology Building of the Massachu- 

 setts Agricultural College. The fact that this great building was 

 erected largely for the Department of Entomology was in itself a 

 great mark of progress. Four years previously the University of 

 California at Berkeley had erected a building exclusively for the 

 Department of Entomology. At Cornell at that time entomology had 

 grown to be a large department occupying spacious quarters with 

 extensive libraries and large collections and a corps of six profes- 

 sors, including Comstock himself. There were also six assistants 

 there, of whom four were in biology, one in insect morphology and 

 one in general entomology. There were 190 students in purely ento- 

 mological courses. At the University of Illinois there were at that 

 time 85 students in strictly entomological courses, 13 of them being 

 graduate students. The teaching staff consisted of one professor, one 

 assistant professor and two laboratory assistants. 



At Nebraska there were that year 160 students in entomology. 



Since 1910, of course, there has been an enormous development, 

 but this account cannot be carried further. The demand for practical 

 information in entomology has become intensified ; hundreds of ])osi- 

 tions have been created, and therefore many hundreds of students have 

 taken up the work, and all this has compelled the educational insti- 

 tutions to try to meet the demand. 



