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all entomological contributions appearing in bulletins, circulars, re- 

 ports, and periodicals. Many of the reports by station entomologists 

 as State Entomologists, however, include separate articles which if 

 counted would greatly increase the total number. The State Depart- 

 ments of Agriculture contributions that have appeared under the 

 authorship of station entomologists have been included ; also the contri- 

 Initions from the Illinois Natural History Survey by Doctor Forbes 

 and his associates have been included, since the Survey in Illinois takes 

 the place of the Station Department of Entomology. I have made no 

 effort, nor- has Doctor Hooker, to check out the number including 

 original research, but it must be very great. In practically every sta- 

 tion in the country original research has been going on for years and 

 many valuable and far-reaching discoveries have been made by the 

 State people. There have been times during all this progress when 

 there have been rumblings of dissatisfaction among the State people 

 with certain actions and apparent policies of the Federal Department, 

 but on the whole the feeling in entomology has been one of harmony, 

 and so far as I can see, looking back from the close of 1928, there have 

 been no misunderstandings that have retarded the advance of investi- 

 gation work. At this time of writing the sky is especially clear and 

 there is not even the faintest suggestion of a cloud. 



I am well aware that this narration cannot be considered a thor- 

 oughly competent history of American economic entomology without 

 much longer consideration of the work done at the State Agricultural 

 Colleges and State Experiment Stations and by the scarce State Ento- 

 mologists, and I can, for lack of space, do little more than generalize 

 concerning the work done by these institutions and by the later men. 

 I have spoken more of the Federal work on account of my intimate 

 association with it, but of the men who have grown up in the service 

 of the States and who have established strong reputations for them- 

 selves, who have published the results of sound research work and 

 have helped enormously to bring about the present conditions, I can- 

 not enter into detail. 1 should like to devote some space to the consid- 

 eration of the work of many of the younger men of prominence, like 

 those who have served in the last 20 or more years as Presidents of 

 the Association of Economic Entomologists (these will be specified 

 in a later chajiter) , of men (to mention some whose names have not yet 

 appeared in this account) like W. E. Britton of Connecticut, W. C. 

 O'Kane of New Hampshire, Henry Fernald of Massachusetts, E. P. 

 Felt of New York, Wilmon Newell of Florida, E. D. Ball of Utah 

 and Iowa, W. E. Hinds of Louisiana, Miss Edith M. Patch of Maine, 

 T. J. Headlee of New Jersey, P. J. Parrott of New York, Franklin 



