One Hundred Years of Entomology 
in the United States, 
by Prof. Dr. HENRY SKINNER (Philadelphia, U. S. A.). 
So far as ascertained the earliest articles on American Insects by 
a native of the country were written by the celebrated Pennsyl- 
vania botanist JoHN BARTRAM, who published on the nests of 
Wasps, the great black Wasp of Pennsylvania, the Dragon-Fly 
of Penna., the yellow Wasp and observations on Cicada septen- 
decim. The former observations were in the « Philosophical Trans- 
actions (1745-1763) ». 
His son WILLIAM also published on Insects in a work entitled 
« Travels through North and South Carolina, Georgia, East and 
West Florida, etc. (1791) ». 
Moses BARTRAM wrote articles on the native Silk Worms of 
America and on Cicada septendecim. The first mentioned paper 
was read before the American Philosophical Society in 1768. 
The first two volumes of the transactions of this Society contain 
a few articles on Insects. In volume one is an article by Colonel 
LANDON CARTER of Sabine Hall, Virginia, communicated by 
Colonel LEE of Virginia, entitled « Observations concerning the 
Fly-Weevil, that destroys the Wheat, with some useful discoveries 
and conclusions concerning the propagation and progress of that 
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