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short, dark man with a full brown beard, who paid no attention to me 

 but was busy with his microscope. I asked for Professor Riley, and 

 the little man with a strong German accent replied " He vill gum soon " 

 and went on with his work. In a few minutes the door opened and in 

 came Professor Riley, whose office was in the adjoining hall room. 



I expected to be put at entomological work at once, but found that 

 I was to be used at first as a clerk. Riley dictated letters to me, which 

 I took down in a bastard shorthand I had invented while taking 

 lecture notes at Cornell. I was initiated into the use of the copy- 

 press, and was used solely as a clerk for several weeks, later being 

 entrusted with the preparation of a manual of silk culture, and later 

 growing into other work of more importance. 



Glover seemed to have left no collections. The National Museum 

 was not in existence. There were supposed to be in the Smithsonian 

 Institution some specimens collected during the different surveys of 

 the territories, but I never saw them. Riley had brought on his own 

 collection from Missouri which at that time was contained practically 

 entirely in large book form double boxes and was in fairly good con- 

 dition since it had received the care of Lugger and later of Pergande. 

 Riley lived on the northwest corner of Thirteenth and R Streets, and 

 at his home (he was recently married) lived his half-sister whom he 

 employed as a clerk but who did not come to the Department. E. A. 

 Schwarz had been employed as a traveling agent, and during this 

 winter was sent to the Bahamas as well as to different portions ot 

 the southern States in order to learn if possible something definite 

 as to the winter quarters of the cotton moth. 



During the winter George Marx, a man of German birth, in his 

 late thirties, a handsome, genial fellow, was taken on to do some draw- 

 ing. He had been trained as an apothecary, had served through the 

 Civil War as a hospital attendant, and had been connected with the 

 drug business in Philadelphia with very indifferent success. But he 

 drew well, and was interested in the study of spiders. He occupied 

 the south room with me, the north room being largely filled with the 

 exhibit collection returned from the Centennial Exposition. In the 

 north window of that room was the little German who had greeted me 

 on my arrival. He was Theodor Pergande. 



The Riley collection was placed in bookcases in the south room. 

 The Commissioner of Agriculture at that time was the Hon. 

 William G. LeDuc. The Department was very small, housed entirely 

 in the three floors of the mansard-roof building at the foot of Thir- 

 teenth Street (torn down m the summer of 1930), and every one in 

 the Department knew all the others. The Commissioner frequently 



