WHOLE VOL. APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY HOWARD lOQ 



Sherman of North Carolina and South Carolina, R. W. Harned of 

 Mississippi, H. A. Morgan formerly of Louisiana, J. J. Davis of 

 Indiana, George A. Dean of Kansas, R. A. Cooley of Montana, R. H. 

 Pettit of Michigan, W. B. Herms, E. O. Essig and Harry S. Smith 

 of California, and perhaps a score of others. The portraits that are 

 ]jublished with this account show the faces of the older ones among 

 these men, but, if I am not mistaken, there is not a man shown on these 

 plates who is less than 55 years of age ; and there is an army of 

 younger men who cannot be mentioned except by an expression of 

 heartiest praise of their important and often self-sacrificing work. 



The apparent age restriction mentioned in the preceding para- 

 graph applies only to the American entomologists. There are so many 

 of them. As to the economic entomologists of the rest of the world, 

 since they are less numerous and since work in economic entomology 

 is really of much more recent date in other countries, younger men are 

 necessarily shown on the plates. 



The Association of Economic Entomologists 



Another event which had a striking influence on the development 

 of applied entomology to its present rank in the United States was 

 the founding of the Association of Economic Entomologists in the 

 summer of 1889. The State Agricultural Experiment Stations had 

 been organized for little more than a year, but so many entomologists 

 had been engaged for this practical work by the new stations that the 

 desirability of an association was evident. The original suggestion for 

 the formation of such an association, I think was made by Professor 

 Riley in the January number of Insect Life for that year. He went 

 to Europe in the late spring and remained abroad until the following 

 October. During his absence the organization was effected. The 

 meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence was to be held in August, 1889, at Toronto, and James Fletcher, 

 the Dominion Entomologist, was the President of the Entomological 

 Club of that Association. It was the obvious thing for Fletcher to 

 issue a call, and as he came to Washington on official business in July 

 he and I together drafted a constitution for the proposed associa- 

 tion and it was organized at Toronto in August. The men attending 

 the organization meetings were Prof. A. J. Cook of Michigan, who 

 acted as chairman, Dr. John B. Smith of New Jersey, Secretary, 

 Prof. C. W. Hargitt of Syracuse University, Mr. E. P. Thompson, 

 a mathematician who was present more or less by accident, Prof. 

 C. M. Weed then of the Ohio Experiment Station, and Prof. Harri- 

 son Carman, just appointed to the Kentucky Experiment Station, 



