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Then Bird came in, the Coast and Geodetic Survey man. He wanted 

 a glass of water. Well, he grot hold of this tumbler containing the 

 Scutigera, poured water into the tumbler and drank the contents — 

 Scutigera and all. We managed to keep him from strangling! Then 

 he took a train for the West, and I didn't see him for years. But one 

 day he turned up in Washington, and I said to him, "Did you ever 

 have any bad effects from that centipede?" 



He said, "Well no; but look here, Howard, I spit legs for a month!" 

 (Laughter) (2) So you see I was one of the fathers of this great, big 

 splendid group of children. I am proud of it. They, by the way, had 

 no scientific mothers. It is a new kind of parthenogenesis, for which 

 Professor O'Kane has suggested the name patergenesis. (Laughter) 

 But there have been daughters though no mothers, and some of them 

 have distinctly arrived. Witness Dr. Edith Patch and Miss Annette 

 Braun over there ! 



Thank you. (Extended applause) 



ToASTMASTER W. E. Britton: Since those days much more attention 

 has been paid to entomology and more people know about it than in the 

 olden times. Even our newspapers are noticing things entomological. 

 In the old days they used to make all manner of fun of them. Of course 

 they do some, now. I have some clippings here. One quotes from the 

 report of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiemnt Station. It says, 

 "Mr. Champlain reared four hymenopterous parasites of the genus 

 Pezomachiis and an undescribed Buprestid beetle of the genus Agrilus 

 from galls on hop hornbeam. This should be a warning to drinkers." 

 (Laughter) 



Here is another one from a newspaper far away. Some of you know 

 that less than a year ago there was published a check-list of the insects 

 of Connecticut. A friend of mine, a chemist who had gone from Con- 

 necticut to Minnesota, sent me a clipping from a local newspaper, 

 headed "Boost Connecticut," which reads as follows: "Sir: There 

 are some folks who just must air their hatreds. There is that fellow, 

 for instance, who has recently published a 'check list of the insects of 

 Connecticut'." (Laughter) As far as the author was concerned, it 

 was a labor of love, and that is about all he got out of it. He never 

 hated anybody — not even the insects. But I could not help thinking 

 what a lot more hatred must be aired if somebody like Professor Ruggles 

 should publish a check list of the insects of Minnesota! (Laughter) 



We have with us tonight a man who has probably had more experience 

 in training entomologists — at least he has been at it for a greater number 

 of years — than any other man in this country. Professor Comstock 

 began teaching in 1872. He has been at it ever since. He was Govern- 



