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an enormous amount of important work. But something surely must 

 be said especially of F. M. Webster who was placed in charge of the 

 Section of Insects Affecting Cereal and Forage Crops, of A. D. 

 Hopkins who took charge of forest insect matters, of A, L. Quain- 

 tance who has had charge of the important Section of Insects Affect- 

 ing Deciduous Fruits since its beginning, of W. D. Hunter who had 

 charge of Southern Field crop insects until the time of his death, and 

 of A. F. Burgess, for many years charged with the investigations of 

 the gipsy moth and 1)rown-tail moths. 



Professor Webster was a veteran entomologist, born in 1849, ^^^lo 

 had been Assistant State Entomologist of Illinois, a Special Agent 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture, Entomologist of the 

 Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, and an assistant on the Bio- 

 logical Survey of Illinois. He had also been Professor of Economic 

 Entomolog)' in Purdue University and Consulting Entomologist of the 

 Indiana Experiment Station. During his work as Special Agent of this 

 Bureau from 1884 to 1892 he paid especial attention to the insects of 

 forage crops, and made many important discoveries. Notable among 

 these was that of seasonal dimorphism in the old genus Isosoma, the 

 larvae of which are known as joint-worms. He had published many 

 papers and was very well known in agricultural circles. He took charge 

 of the new section, chose competent assistants, established a number 

 of field laboratories, and built up his section into one of much promi- 

 nence and great usefulness. He died in 1916. A rather full biography 

 will be found in the Proceedings of the Entomological Society of 

 Washington, Volume 18, No. 2, pp. 79-83 (1916). 



Dr. Andrew D. Hopkins was born in 1857; was Entomologist of 

 the West Virginia Agricultural Experiment .Station from 1890 to 

 1902 and Professor of Economic Entomology in the University of 

 West Virginia from 1896 to 1902. In the latter year he was taken 

 over into the Federal Bureau of Entomology, in charge of its inves- 

 tigations of forest insects, and on the establishment of the Section 

 of Forest Entomology in 1904 he was, naturally, in charge. He 

 remained chief of this important section until 1923, when he resigned 

 as chief of section and has since that time been devoting himself, still 

 as an expert of the Bureau, to special research in bioclimatics, a 

 subject which he has largely developed and which has already shown 

 itself to be of the greatest interest and the broadest bearings. Dur- 

 ing his 19 years of work on forest insects he did many great things. 

 He knew his forest, and he worked with enormous enthusiasm on its 

 entomological problems. His vivid interest took him into many 

 aspects of the work. Im{>rcssed by the enormous importance of the 



