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But as Dr. Call has truthfully said: "There has never been made a 

 geographic study, within this state, of its moUusks. Nor have systematic 

 collections ever been made of so much as even a single stream. * * * * 

 The first essential condition to a complete study of the geographic distribution 

 of Indiana mollusca lies in complete and painstaking local collections. This 

 is not the task of a week nor of a single season. ***** What is 

 done must be done systematically and thoroughly and at once" before the 

 great changes being brougiit about by civilization result in the extinction of 

 the species. 



Entomology 



As loyal Hoosiers, either by birth or choice, we can all feel a just pride 

 in the fact that the "Father of American Entomology," Thomas Say, chose 

 Indiana as the field of his labors and as his home. Here he lived from 1825 

 until his death in 1834; here he did much, perhaps most, of his entomological 

 field work and laboratory study; and here, in historic and beautiful New 

 Harmony, rest his remains. 



With the passing of Say, the study of the insects of Indiana practically 

 ceased for nearly 50 years. I have not been able to examine the literature 

 critically; for my present purpose it is not necessary that I should do so. H ««( 



It is enough to know that since Say's time, very little entomological 

 work was done in Indiana for many years. 



The subject of entomology seems to have lain dormant imtil about 1885 

 when John Caspar Branner, (New Market, Tenn., July 4, 1850 ), dis- 

 tinguished geologist, came to Indiana University as head of the department 

 of geology in that institution. Dr. Branner was, and is, more than a geologist. 

 His interests are many. Among the things in which he was deeply interested 

 in those days was" entomology, not as a field in which he aimself was working 

 or intended to work, but as a field which offered splendid opportunities for 

 original investigation to those of his students whose tastes inclined then in 

 that direction. Dr. Branner told some of his students of the richness of this 

 field. Some of them became interested. Perhaps the first of all was my col- 

 lege classmate, Jerome Fee McNeil who studied the Myriopoda of Indiana, 

 and in 1886, published descriptions of twelve new species, chiefly from In- 

 diana. Later he published other papers on this group and upon the Orlhop- 

 tera. 



Another young man whom Dr. Branner discovered was Charley Bollman 

 at that time a boy of 17 or 18 of unusual promise. He very soon became 

 interested in birds, fishes and myriapods, but most deeply in myriapods. 



He and McNeil did much collecting together, and each soon began to 

 publish the results of his studies. BoUman's first paper on these animals 

 was one describing ten new species of myriapods in 1887. This was followed 

 by 12 or more papers containing descriptions of many new species of myriap- 

 ods, a large proportion of which were from Indiana. 



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