22 FIFTH ANNUAL KEPORT 



him, in addition, to cut and fetch in wood, peel and wash the potatoes, 

 and be always on hand ready to wait on the good woman of the house. 

 Can we wonder, under such circumstances, that the Entomological 

 Keports from the Department do not contain a v/orld of original and 

 practical information ? When Mr. Glover should have been studying 

 the Insects, he was called off to attend the Birds. If he intended to 

 discover some facts about the Army-worm, he was hurried away to 

 unpack a bushel of apples. And instead of learning how to master 

 the Curculio, his time was occupied in classifying and arranging speci- 

 mens of flax, hemp, cotton, etc.! As if Entomology required neither 

 time, stud)'^ nor attention ! Those who have the pleasure of Mr. 

 Glover's acquaintance know full well that there are few harder work- 

 ing men than he ; but his position is by no means enviable. Ento- 

 mology is enough for one man to shoulder, without having all the 

 other ologies piled on his back. 



In the East, Dr. A, S. Packard holds the office of State Entomolo- 

 gist in Massachusetts; and Dr. I. P. Trimble has somehow or other 

 been supposed to hold a similar office in New Jersey, though with no 

 State authority. Prof. S. I. Smith, of New Haven, has lately been 

 appointed Entomologist to the State Board of Agriculture of Connec- 

 ticut, and the celebrated Neuropterist, Dr. H, A. Hagen, is Professor 

 of Entomology at Harvard. In the middle States, Michigan and Iowa 

 have entomologists attached to their agricultural colleges ; but in each 

 instance the position is a sort of adjunct to something else. Illinois, 

 always wise, and leading in the higher walks of Agriculture, was the 

 first to establish the office of State Entomologist in the so-called West. 

 In the winter of 1866-7, the Legislature enacted a law creating the 

 office, and on the 11th of June, 1867, the Governor very judiciously 

 appointed to it Mr. Benj. D. Walsh, of Rock Island, a gentleman who 

 had been the principal editor of the Practical Entomologist^ a 

 journal published in 1865 and 1866 in Philadelphia, and solely devoted, 

 as its name implies, to practical entomology. 



Following the example of her sister State, Missouri — through the 

 efforts of a few of her more progressive and intelligent citizens, and 

 especially of Norman J. Colman, editor of the Rural World — cre- 

 ated the office of State Entomologist, and endowed it by a special 

 appropriation to the State Board of Agriculture, under whose direc- 

 tion the incumbent acts. In April, 1868, the writer was called to fill 

 the position. In the fall of the same year Mr. Walsh and myself com- 

 menced the publication of the American Entomologist (a monthly 

 journal devoted to economic entomology) at St. Louis, in order to 

 supply need'ed information pending the publication of oar annual 

 reports. But a sad and cruel accident deprived Illinois of one of her 

 most useful citizens, and myself of a lament >d and valued colleague. 

 His mantle fell upon Dr. Wm. Le Baron, of Geneva — a gentleman of 

 ripe knowledge, and whose work is highly appreciated. The value 



