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Professor Garman is still at work in the Kentucky Station. 



Professor Lugger who was for a time entomologist in Minnesota, 

 died a number of years ago. 



Professor Gillette is still director of the Station in Colorado. 



Professor Bruner, one of that group, has a long record of useful 

 service as entomologist of Nebraska. 



Dr. Howard doesn't really need to be mentioned at all. He was 

 one of my earliest entomological friends. I ought not to speak of 

 individuals who are not dead but I do want to speak a little about him. 

 Dr. Howard said to me the other day, "You and I have worked to- 

 gether for forty years and never had a fight." That is quite a record 

 for good fellowship ; certainly it is quite a record for Howard. (Laughter) 



Now, regarding the character of the work of the Association, I think 

 it was mentioned yesterday that the Association was organized as a 

 research societ3^ I do not entirely agree with that. " So I want to 

 give you a little account of the early work of the society to bear out 

 my obiection. 



The first title was "The Association of Official Economic Entomolo- 

 gists" and that was patterned after, I think, the title for the chemists 

 who called themselves the "Official A.gricultural Chemists of the United 

 States of America." We held that name for a short time. The idea 

 I think was that it would include those who were officially in entomolog- 

 ical work. I remember that there was some question about my eligi- 

 bility because I was not a station entomologist. Most of them were. 

 The teachers of entomology were a little bit in doubt, and I was pleased 

 of course when they did come around and decide that a teacher in an 

 agricultural college might be an official entomologist. If you will 

 look at the early records, you will find that there was a distinct question 

 of the eligibility of Professor Packard. He knew as much entomology 

 perhaps as any one, except Professor Comstock or Dr. Hagen who was 

 certainly one of the most learned entomologists of that date — the 

 early eighties — and one whom I was glad to know. 



I had the pleasure of working one winter with Dr. Hagen and the 

 main thing that he tried to impress on me was that I should not be an 

 economic entomologist. That particular part of his advice I didn't 

 follow. 



Now, coming back to the question of the pur[30se of the society, I 

 think that it did include definitely the matter of instruction in ento- 

 mology as well as research. The station entomologists of course were 

 definitely research men, but many of them — in fact, most of them — 

 had also the duty of teaching in the agricultural colleges or institutions 



