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the impression that he was receiving a pension from the government 

 since a year or so before he had seen in the newspapers that Congress 

 was considering a Civil Service retirement bill. He died, however, 

 long before such a bill became a law. 



Otto Lugger, who had been with Riley in St. Louis and who had 

 left him, went eventually to Baltimore where he became Curator of 

 the Maryland Academy of Sciences. In 1885 an opportunity ofifered 

 and he became an assistant in the Division of Entomology, resigning 

 in 1888 to become State Entomologist of Minnesota. He was a 

 very well trained entomologist, a great humorist and a man of very 

 great information. He assisted in a number of important investiga- 

 tions and left behind him important notes which were subsequently 

 used. His administration of his office in Minnesota was most suc- 

 cessful, and his annual reports were sound, extensive and widely 

 read. 



Charles L. Marlatt came to Washington in late 1888. Professor 

 Riley needed another artist. He had been struck with the drawings 

 made by Marlatt to illustrate certain bulletins coming from the 

 Kansas State Agricultural College, and offered him a position in 

 Washington largely with the idea that he would use him in drawing 

 insects. When Marlatt appeared here, however, Riley found that he 

 was far too good a man in other directions to be allowed to use his 

 time in drawing, and Marlatt quickly made an important place for 

 himself in the service. About this time Professor Riley was able to 

 secure the services of Miss Lily Sullivan as an artist, who soon 

 became very proficient at that work, and so he was free to use Mar- 

 latt in other directions. Marlatt's attention was turned almost imme- 

 diately to the subject of insecticides and insecticide apparatus. One 

 of his early tasks was to go to Michigan and investigate the A. J. 

 Cook side of the kerosene-emulsion controversy. He showed him- 

 self in that matter, as in all others afterwards, clear-minded, just, 

 and extremely capable. His contributions to the early volumes of 

 Insect Life and his papers read before the Entomological Society of 

 Washington showed him to be a coming man with an important 

 future. Before coming to Washington he had taken his master's 

 degree at the Kansas State Agricultural College and was an assis- 

 tant to Prof. E. A. Popenoe in the teaching department. In 1922 

 he was given a doctorate in science by the same institution. When 

 Riley resigned in 1894, Marlatt became the First Assistant Ento- 

 mologist, later Associate Entomologist, holding this position until 

 1927 when he became Chief of the Bureau. In the meantime, in 

 1912, he became the first Chairman of the just-created Federal 



