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her ancestors having been engaged in farming for several generations in 
Monroe County, western New York. 
He was prepared at Betts Academy, Stamford, Conn., and at the Horace 
Mann High School, New York City, and in 1907 received the degree of 
B.A. from Columbia University. In 1897 he started a systematic collection 
of coleoptera. 
He is unmarried. 
Since July 1, 1909, Snyder has been employed as agent and 
expert in the Bureau of Entomology, United States Department 
of Agriculture. He writes: “In October, 1909, investigated the 
dying of the short-lived Norway spruce in District of Columbia, 
New York, Long Island, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, to deter- 
mine whether the death of the trees was due to insects anywhere 
else than in District of Columbia. From May, 1910, to October, 
1910, investigated damage to the bases of chestnut and arbor- 
vitae telephone and telegraph poles by wood-boring insects in 
District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, New 
York and Pennsylvania. Much time was spent in traveling with 
railroad camp crews. From July to December, 1911, investigated 
the cause of the dying of the pine in the southern states. Some 
time was spent at Forest Insect Field Station 7, Spartanburg, 
S. C., in educational work and public demonstrations as to the 
‘methods of controlling the southern pine beetle. From March 
I to date have been engaged in investigating the cause of the 
dying chestnut trees—particularly in the southern states, where the 
chestnut bark disease is not present. My chief individual work 
is working out the biology of termites (termes species) and deter- 
mining methods of preventing damage by them to forest products. 
The life history of the common species will soon be published for 
the first time.” 
He is a member of All Souls Protestant Episcopal Church, 
New York City. In politics he is an Independent Republican. 
He is a member of the Entomological Society of Washington, the 
Biological Society of Washington, and is a Mason, a member of 
Lebanon Lodge 7, Kallipolis Grotto 15, M. O. V. P. E. R. 
He has published: Damage to chestnut telephone and telegraph poles 
by wood-boring insects, Bull. 94, part 1, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric., 
Washington, D. C., Dec., 1910; Damage to telephone and telegraph poles 
by wood-boring insects, Circ. 134, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dept. Agric., March 7, 
