THE MINNESOTA 



HORTICULTURIST. 



VOL. 29. AUGUST, 1901. No. 8. 



I^ ]V[|ii^oriaii^. 



DR. OTTO LUGGER, 



St. Anthony Park, Minn. 

 Died May 21, 1901. Aged 57 years. 



In the death of Dr. Otto Lugger, the farmers and horticulturists 

 of Minnesota have lost one of their ablest advisers ; the agricultural 

 department of the university has lost one of the men who have done 

 much to make its practical education popular with the I^ople of 

 the state ; science has lost one who loved science and who delighted 

 in a large connection with its achievements. 



Dr. Lugger had rare native ability for the work of a naturalist. 

 Early in life he developed a strong instinct for nature study. His 

 father, who was a scientist, wisely included in his school work a 

 broad line of education in the German gymnasium and in the Ger- 

 man universities. Coming to this country in early manhood, Dr. 

 Lugger continued his studies both in university laboratories and in 

 the field. For a time he was connected with the national geological 

 survey on the the great lakes. Here he began a collection of insects, 

 which was afterward burned in the great Chicago fire. About this 

 time he became acquainted with Prof. C. V. Riley, who was then 

 in newspaper work in Chicago. When Prof. Riley became state 

 entomologist of Missouri, in 1868, he took with him young Lugger 

 as assistant. Dr. L. O. Howard, Lugger's former associate in the 

 national Department of Agriculture, and now head of the entomo- 

 logical division of that department, says concerning Lugger's work 

 in Missouri, — "During the years 1868 to 1875, when Riley estab- 

 lished his great reputation as economic entomologist and published 

 eight of the nine annual reports which brought him lasting fame, 

 Lugger remained his quiet, unassuming, self-sacrificing, devoted 

 helper." 



