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mice in print. The importance of the State Agricultural Colleges, 

 founded as a result of the Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862, was 

 gradually growing, although very slowly indeed. First a general 

 teaching of several sciences by one man, so-called natural history 

 courses, were offered, and from these very slowly developed teach- 

 ers who were able to devote more and more of their time to ento- 

 mology. We have shown this in our section on teaching. Of the 

 writers mentioned in our chapter on early history, Miss Mary E. 

 Murtfeldt, F. M. Webster, H. G. Hubbard, C. H. Fernald, Cyrus 

 Thomas, S. A. Forbes, George H. French, J. H. Comstock, Emily 



A. Smith, A. J. Cook. J. A. Lintner and A. .S. Packard continued 

 to publish after 1878, some of them dropping out shortly after that 

 date, and others continuing for many years. Several of them we have 

 considered rather fully in the earlier chapter and nothing further need 

 be said about them here. This holds for Cook, Lintner, Miss Murt- 

 feldt, Hubbard, Webster, and Fernald. Something must be said, how- 

 ever, about the others. 



We have mentioned in a single paragraph the work of Prof. S. A. 

 Forbes who began to publish in 1876, and in that paragraph (written 

 in April, 1928) he was recorded as still living. Very recently (March 

 I3> 1930) he died, at the age of 86. The value of Professor Forbes' 

 work could hardly be overestimated. He was a sound worker and an 

 advanced thinker throughout his whole career, and was a leader among 

 all the American entomologists. He succeeded Cyrus Thomas as State 

 Entomologist of Illinois in 1882, and speedily became known as one 

 of the strongest men in the field of applied entomology in the United 

 States. I honestly think that it would have been for the good of the 

 country had he succeeded Riley in 1894 as Entomologist of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and I think there is no doubt that 

 he could have had the position had he wished it. I do not know that 

 his name was considered by the Secretary of Agriculture, but I myself 

 wrote him asking whether he would consider the position, not wish- 

 ing to ol)trude my own claims ahead of his. He replied, however, that 

 he was so greatly interested in his Illinois work that he much pre- 

 ferred to stay there. His career has been an admirable one ; it has dig- 

 nified the applied science and has helped no end to bring about its pres- 

 ent important standing. An admirable review of his career, by Henry 



B. Ward, is published in the number of Science that comes to my desk 

 as I write this (Science, April 11, 1930, Vol. 71, No. 1841, pp. 378- 



381)- 



Lawrence Bruner was a man who became prominent during the 

 period we no^v have under consideration. His first article was pub- 



