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and James Fletcher. Rather to his surprise, I am sure, they all rec- 

 ommended me. So I received my appointment in June, 1894. Two 

 rather interesting things occurred immediately. Secretary Morton 

 had been an old friend of Hon, Bela P. Hubbard, of Detroit, the 

 father of Henry G. Hubbard, an agent of the Division, who happened 

 at that time to be in Washington. The Secretary stated that he wished 

 Mr. Hubbard to be appointed First Assistant Entomologist. This 

 caused trouble at once, since C. L. Marlatt, who had been brought 

 to Washington from Kansas by Professor Riley and who had worked 

 with great intelligence and assiduity and who had ranked next in 

 order, thought that the first-assistantship should be given to him. I 

 agreed with him thoroughly, and talked the matter over with Hub- 

 bard who gladly volunteered to go to Secretary Morton and advocate 

 Marlatt's appointment, stating that he himself was a landed proprie- 

 tor in Florida and that his interests were mainly in that State. The 

 result was that Marlatt received the apjx)intment. 



Another interesting development was E. A. Schwarz' resignation 

 as soon as he heard of my appointment. I had always supposed that 

 he liked me, but I imagine that, possibly fed by jealousy of my 

 increasing influence with Riley (he had been Riley's right-hand man 

 during the Comstock regime), he had gradually become opposed to 

 my way of doing things. Here again Hubbard came to the rescue. 

 He was Schwarz' most intimate friend, and having, fortunately, a 

 good opinion of me, he begged Schwarz to withdraw his resignation. 

 This he finally did, and during the many years that we worked to- 

 gether after that there has never been evident to me the slightest 

 trace of the antagonistic feeling that must have existed to a very 

 marked degree during the closing years of the Riley administration. 



Here is an interesting incident connected with the change of per- 

 sonnel: Secretary Morton, familiar with the history of the service, 

 feared that at the expiration of the first Cleveland administration 

 Professor Riley would repeat his effort, which had been so success- 

 ful in 1881, to regain the office; and consequently induced President 

 Cleveland to cover all the chiefs of scientific divisions in the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, except the Weather Bureau, into the Civil Ser- 

 vice by executive order. This is one of the instances of how compara- 

 tively small things bring about big results ; and at the same time it 

 indicates the breadth of President Cleveland's views regarding the 

 Civil Service. 



Just at this point it would be well to say something more about 

 the personnel of the Division of Entomology at this time. We have 

 just seen how Hubbard's opinion influenced Schwarz to remain with 



