WHOLE VOL. APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY HOWARD 169 



bark-beetles of the genus Dendroctonus, he wrote a monograph of 

 the beetles of this genus, and he studied their bionomics and estab- 

 lished a number of broad principles that proved of much practical 

 value when thoroughly understood and upon which much practical 

 work was based. In spite of the fact that Dr. A. S. Packard was the 

 author of the big volume on forest insects published before Doctor 

 Hopkins entered the field, Hopkins was really the big pioneer forest 

 entomologist of the United States and his work was of such a char- 

 acter as to make everything of the kind that had been done before 

 seem very small. He showed himself always to be a man of vision. 

 He knew the forest entomology of Europe from personal study, 

 and realized from the start that, while forest conditions are absolutely 

 different in this country, we must gain here a knowledge of forest 

 insects at least comparable to that of the European workers. Of his 

 newer field — that of bioclimatics — it is unnecessary to speak, since 

 the results of his work will doubtless soon be published in book form. 

 Dr. A. L. Quaintance was born in 1870 ; was Entomologist of the 

 Alabama Polytechnic Institute in 1894, of the Florida Agricultural 

 College and Experiment Station from 1895 to 1898, of the Georgia 

 Agricultural Experiment Station from 1899 to 1901, and Professor 

 of Entomology in the Maryland Agricultural College and State Ento- 

 mologist of Maryland from 1901 to 1903. He was a Special Agent of 

 the United States Bureau of Entomology in 1903, working on cot- 

 ton insects in Texas, and was placed in charge of deciduous fruit 

 insect investigations in 1905. In 1924 he was made Associate Chief 

 of the Bureau in charge of research work. Doctor Quaintance has 

 been a very notable figure in the recent history of the Bureau. He is 

 a man who is not only filled with the research spirit but who has also 

 a keenly practical mind. He is an admirable administrator and has 

 shown his ability in many directions. A thoroughly sound entomolo- 

 gist himself, he has conducted personal research in an especially diffi- 

 cult group of injurious insects (the Aleurodidae) and in the biology 

 of various insects, and has shown himself an inspiring and sympa- 

 thetic leader of research in the important branches of his work. He 

 has built up modern field laboratories and has directed plans of re- 

 search that have brought very important results. His keen apprecia- 

 tion of the value of fundamental studies has led him to initiate work- 

 through ably trained assistants in directions that had not been pushed 

 by other workers, and many of the strong ideas adopted in prac- 

 tice by the Bureau have originated with him. 



Dr. W. D. Hunter was born in 1875. He was educated at the 

 University of Nebraska, and after graduation held an instructor's 



