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Dr. John B. Smith, coming to Washington in 1884, pubhshed 

 several articles on economic entomology before he was appointed 

 Entomologist to the State of New Jersey on the founding of the 

 Agricultural Experiment Station. Doctor Smith was primarily a 

 taxonomist, first in the Coleoptera and later in the Lepidoptera. 

 While he came to Washington for work largely in the United States 

 National Museum where he was Assistant Curator of Insects under 

 Professor Riley who was then the Honorary Curator, he was called 

 upon for work in the Department of Agriculture and, if I remember 

 rightly, was paid from the funds of the Department of Agriculture. 

 One of his notable pieces of economic work at that period was his 

 report on cranberry insects. Later, in New Jersey, he became one of 

 the foremost of the State workers and published many admiral)le 

 reports and bulletins. 



Prof. Clarence P. Gillette, at first Assistant Entomologist to the 

 Michigan Agricultural College (1886-87), l^^ter at Ames, Iowa, and 

 still later and for many years head of the Department of Zoology and 

 Botany in the Colorado Agricultural College and Entomologist of 

 the Colorado Experiment Station, and still later Director of the 

 Colorado Experiment Station, began to publish while still at Michi- 

 gan, and his first recorded paper was published during the period 

 we are now considering in this chapter. It was on the subject of mites 

 and was published in 1887 in the Annual Report of the Michigan 

 Horticultural Society. 



Prof. F. H. Snow, teacher of natural history in the University of 

 Kansas and afterwards President of the University, was working and 

 ])ublishing concerning insects nearly until the time of his death, and 

 was responsible for the great interest in the destruction of the chinch 

 Inig by a fungus disease that was much talked about in the late i88o's. 



Harrison Carman, working in Illinois and later for many years 

 connected with the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, began 

 to write in 1882 and was the author of several important papers. 



Many articles on entomology were published by a rapidly increas- 

 ing number of waiters, largely in the agricultural journals, during this 

 period, and a few of the workers in systematic entomology occa- 

 sionally published a note upon some injurious species. V. T. Cham- 

 bers, a well known writer on Microlepidoptera, W. L. Devereaux, 

 George Dimmock, a broad biologist entomologically interested in the 

 Diptera, C. H. Dwindle of California, Henry Edwards, the actor and 

 famous collector of Lepidoptera, G. H. French of Illinois, a Lepidop- 

 terist for the most part and the author of a book on butterflies, F. ^^^ 

 Coding who later entered the United States Consular Service but 



