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was parthenogenetic, I never heard of any record of the father of the 

 society. I think Dr. Howard speaks for himself as one of the fathers. 

 At any rate, the society was homozygous. It was certainly masculine, 

 and it is one of the growths of the society that it now has a number of 

 women who are doing strong entomological work. 



The Club was active for a number of years before and after the 

 organization of this society. With your permission I would like to go 

 back a little from the beginning of this society and mention some of the 

 very early meetings of the Entomological Club, which is the genetic 

 ancestor of this Association. The first meeting of the Entomological 

 Club that I attended was in Minneapolis in the year 1883, and there I 

 met the first group of entomologists that it had ever been my privilege 

 to meet, as a group. I had met Professor Riley some years before, in 

 the year '76, I think, and I got some inspiration from that very re- 

 markable, energetic entomologist. But at Minneapolis, along with 

 Professor Riley, there were present Professor Forbes; then in the early 

 years of a notable career; Professor Saunders of Canada, a very charm- 

 ing man indeed and whom I came to consider a close friend in later 

 years; Professor Kellicott who was then located in Buffalo, before 

 he went to Ohio; Miss Murtfeldt of Missouri; C. S. Minot then inter- 

 ested in insect histology, and there were one or two others. But these 

 were the outstanding figures of that meeting, entomologically. I 

 got inspiration for my work there such as all younger members get in 

 early attendances at these meetings. It is an inspiration and stimulus 

 to meet with the older men and find out something about their methods 

 of work, and their personal characteristic. 



Now of the original charter members of this society I would like to 

 call the roll, or mention some of the more conspicuous ones, at least, 

 because I think that some of them are practically unknown, or their 

 work not particularly familiar to the present generation, jj, The work 

 they did was so far in the past, there has been so much other work since, 

 that has claimed attention, that it seems to me the students working 

 now often fail to appreciate the quantity or qualit}^ of work that has 

 been done by the pioneers. I was not fortunate enough to ever meet 

 Dr. Fitch, or Harris or Walsh or Thomas, but most of the other economic 

 workers I have had a chance to meet and have had in that way an oppor- 

 tunity to appreciate their work better I think than if I had not had 

 personal acquaintance. 



On that original list, Professor Riley of course is recognized as the 

 father, almost, of economic entomology in America. His reports on 

 Missouri insects have stood as a classic, and are even yet a model for 

 economic investigation. Professor Forbes has been mentioned already 



