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instruction. At first Dr. Hagen hesitated, and then he said he would 

 be glad to give a course to .one student. So I went on and spent the 

 Slimmer in the museum at Cambridge determining some insects that I 

 carried on, and receiving instruction from Dr. Hagen. 



Let me tell you what happened each morning : It was a hot summer. 

 Dr. Hagen, as you will remember, was a stout gentleman. He would 

 come in, in the morning, take off his coat and hang it up back of the 

 door, take off his vest and put it on top of his coat. That left him in 

 his shirt sleeves and trousers. Then he would take a pipe with a long, 

 flexible stem, load the pipe, sit down at a little square table such as 

 you will find in some students' rooms, put the pipe on the floor behind 

 him, and with the mouthpiece in his mouth, he would say, "Now you 

 come and I vill tell you some dings vat I know. " Every morning through- 

 out the sum'mer that exact formula was used. 



Then, with a pencil and some sheets of ]Daper before him, which he 

 used as a substitute for a blackboard, he gave me a lecture on insect 

 morphology. I believe that must have been the first special course on 

 insect morf^holog}'- given on this side of the Atlantic. (Applause) 

 And it was a wonderful course. Years afterwards when I gave a course 

 of lectures on insect morphology myself, I would go back for data to 

 my notes on these lectures. 



I think that these few reminiscences will show you the growth that 

 there has been, in the memory of some of us who are here. I will not 

 tire you with more. (Extended applause) 



ToASTMASTER W. E. Britton: We had fully expected to have with 

 us to-night Dr. S. A. J^orbes, who is probably the oldest living state 

 entomologist in the country. He has been publishing reports for 

 nearly forty years. As some of you know, Walsh was the first state 

 entomologist of Illinois, followed by Le Baron, Thomas, and then by 

 Forbes. This office was started very soon after that filled by Riley in 

 Missouri, so that the set of Illinois reports is one of the very valuable 

 ones and is necessary in the library of every economic entomologist. 

 But for seme reason or other. Dr. Forbes was not able to be present. 

 He has been an investigator, teacher and director of the Natural History 

 Survey of Illinois, and has a long series of reports to his credit. He is 

 a man of splendid administrative ability, I wish that he might be here 

 to give us a few words. 



Of course, everything in entomology has developed so rapidly that 

 we hardly know today what tomorrow may bring forth. After hearing 

 the experience of dusting with the aeroplane, I see that we will have to 

 change our old slogan "Let us spray," to that now used by the house- 

 wife, "Get up and dust." (Laughter) 



