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as one of the leaders in entomological investigation, and his series of 

 reports is one of the striking features of entomological publication for 

 the country. 



Professor Cook was a very enthusiastic, energetic man, and I thin 

 that those who knew him personally appreciated his personal character 

 He stimulated a number of young men to go into entomological work, 

 and you know, of course, the fine work done by some of his students. 



Professor Comstock has already been before you and I need not 

 say more than a word of praise for his work. I don't know what we 

 would have done without the books and papers that he has written. 

 Professor Comstock and I have had a long standing disagreement. 

 I don't know that he knows of it. We have never had it as a matter of 

 contest between us, but it shows that disagreements can exist without 

 people being aware of them. I don't need to tell you what it is because 

 it is not a serious matter at all and has never interfered with our friend- 

 ship or lessened my esteem for him. 



To go on with the list here, Professor Harvey was one of this original 

 list. He was a professor in Maine and before that in Arkansas. 



Professor Webster was perhaps known to quite a number of you 

 because his work extended up to a few years ago. Probably a number 

 of you met him at the Columbus meeting only five or six years ago. 



There are two members, Beckwith and Campbell, that were personally 

 unknown to me of this whole list of charter members. 



Professor C. M. Weed was one of the charter members at the original 

 meeting, an entomological writer for the old Prairie Farmer and whose 

 work in Illinois and Ohio opened a number of new phases of work. 



James Fletcher, of course, was one of the outstanding figures of that 

 group of men. He met with us very frequently, especially after the 

 organization of this society, and was always the life of any group of 

 entomologists that got together. He was one of the most charming 

 men to talk with that I ever met in my life. 



Professor Bethune has been mentioned, and I think we can give him 

 a great deal of praise for the splendid work that he did on ' ' The Canadian 

 Entomologist.'' I keep that Journal on my nearest shelf and look at it 

 with a great deal of interest. I started taking that magazine in 1882 

 and later secured all the back numbers, so I have the complete set 

 before me as an indication of what can be done in continuity of ento- 

 mological work. 



Mr. Wickson was first entomologist and later became director of the 

 experiment station in California, after which he dropped out of ento- 

 mological work. 



Professor Woodworth was for a long time head of the entomological 

 work in California, and was entomologist of the Arkansas Station in 1889. 



