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setting forth the importance of the publication of the proceedings of 

 the Academy, and determining upon its commencement " with the 

 least possible delay/' Such a step no one else among us had had 

 the nerve, the confidence and resolute determination to take, but the 

 resolutions were adopted, and the result has abundantly jiroven, not 

 only the entire practicability but the wisdom of the undertaking; a 

 work which but f<ir him wovild perhaps never have l)een commenced. 



In accordance with the resolutions, a publication committee was 

 appointed of which he was chairman, and from this time to the 

 very day of his death he pushed forward that work, editing and 

 arranging the matter, selecting the material, superintending the 

 printing, often advancing the means to pay for it, and latterly fur- 

 nishing the type by the use of which the cost was reduced to one- 

 half; and one of the very last remarks he made, an hour or two be- 

 fore his breath ceased, was one to me, regarding the printing of the 

 last sheet which had been prepared for the press. He labored not 

 for the present only, but for the future, not for what he could do 

 while with us, but to place the work on a permanent and self-sus- 

 taining basis, and if we who remain are at all faithful to our duty, 

 if we follow his example of unselfish eff'ort, he will not have failed 

 in what he hoped to accomplish; it can be sustained, the most ardu- 

 ous portion of the task has already been performed by his self-sacri- 

 ficing devotion. The work has reached very nearly the middle of 

 the third volume, has been circulated far and wide, has received the 

 approval and commendation of scientific men everywhere, and has 

 brought rich returns in building up a valuable library. 



In 1872, his attention was directed to the " maple bark louse," 

 which had suddenly become very destructive to the trees in this and 

 other localities, and on June 14th, he presented, in an Academy 

 meeting, a brief but instructive paper on the subject. With all the 

 other work in which he was engaged, this subject was never lost 

 sight of, and he spent the summer of 1879 in most assiduous and 

 thorough microscopic work in an original and exhaustive investiga- 

 tion of the embryology and development of this insect; the kind of 

 work which not only throws light upon profound problems in biolog- 

 ical science, but places in man's hands the power to curb the rava- 

 ges of noxious insects, and save his trees and crops. The results 

 of this research were embodied in a paper of over fifty pages of our 

 Proceedings, the most elaborate and complete paper he has ever 

 published, under the title of '' Biological and other Notes on Coc- 

 cidce.'''' This paper at once established his position among the ento- 



