Professor 



Bourne 



Retires 



AFTER 46 YEARS 

 OF SERVICE 



Professor Arthur I. Bourne 



DURING the past 46 years 

 Arthur Israel Bourne has 

 served the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station and the 

 people ol Massachusetts as Assist- 

 ant Entomologist, Investigator, As- 

 sistant Research Professor, and 

 Professor of Entomology. He is re- 

 tiring now from his work which has 

 been entirely in the economic field, 

 dealing largely with fruit, cereal, 

 and field crop pests. For many 

 years, in the absence of an exten- 

 sion entomologist, Prof. Bourne has 

 had contact with and made recom- 

 mendations for pest control in all 

 economic fields of entomology. 



Professor Bourne was born on 

 October 29, 1886, in Kennebunk- 

 port, Maine, and later lived in 

 Hillsboro, and in Pembroke, New 

 Hampshire. Graduated f r o m 

 Dartmouth in 1907 with an A.B. 

 degree, he was first employed 

 spraying orchards on a farm. 

 About the same time he became 

 involved in the control of the 

 gypsy and brown-tail moths in 

 southern New Ham[)shire. 



The next year he entered Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College as a 



graduate student in entomology 

 under Dr. C. H. Fernald, with a 

 minor in botany under Dr. George 

 E. Stone. His entomological inter- 

 est at this time dealt with the bi- 

 ology of aphids or plant lice. 



After a summer as assistant en- 

 tomologist at the Connecticut 

 Agricultural Experiment Station 

 at New Haven he was offered a 

 position with the U. S. Bureau of 

 Entomology. He resigned the next 

 year to accept a full-time position 

 with the Experiment Station at the 

 then Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College. 



Prof. Bourne has published nu- 

 merous articles on entomology in 

 scientific journals and Experiment 

 Station bidletins. He is a member 

 of several national entomological 

 and scientific organizations includ- 

 ing the Entomological Society of 

 America, the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science, 

 the American Association of Eco- 

 nomic Entomologists, and the 

 scientific honor society of Sigma 

 Xi. 



Dr. Harvev L. Sweetman 

 Department of Entomology 



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