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was caug-ht and terribly mang-led. The foot was amputated above 

 the ankle, and Mr. Walsh bore the operation remarkably well 

 and soon became quite cheerful, displaying his facetiousness by 

 declaring in the most philosophical spirit, that nothing more for- 

 tunate could have happened to him. ' Why,' he would say to 

 his grieving wife, ' don't you see what an advantage a cork foot 

 will be to me when I am hunting bugs in the woods? I can make 

 an excellent pin-cushion of it, and if perchance I lose the cork from 

 one of my bottles I shall simply have to cut another one out of my 

 foot.' Shortly after he died, as a result of the injuries sustained. 

 Mr. Walsh was born in Frome, Worcestershire [Somersetshire], 

 England, on the 21st of September, 1808, and was therefore in 

 his sixty-second year. He came to this country in 1838. The 

 first published account that we can find of Mr. Walsh as an en- 

 tomologist is in the report of a lecture which he deliv^ered before 

 the Illinois State Horticultural Society at the Bloomington Con- 

 vention in January, i860. After this he became a regular con- 

 tributor to" a number of agricultural journals, and also published 

 papers in the ' Proceedings' of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, and in the ' Proceedings' of the Philadelphia Entomo- 

 logical Society. He was a school-mate with Darwin, and though 

 he took up the latter' s work on the 'Origin of Species' with 

 great prejudices against the development hypothesis, yet he be- 

 came a convert to evolution after he had once studied it. In 

 October, 1865, The Entomological Society of Philadelphia com- 

 menced the publication of a monthly bulletin entitled the ' Prac- 

 tical Entomologist.' This journal was edited by the publication 

 "committee of the society, consisting of E. T. Cresson, Aug. R. 

 Grote and J. W. McAllister. Very soon, however, Mr. Walsh 

 was added to the list as associate editor from the West,, and he 

 finally became sole editor of the second volume. So well had 

 he succeeded in opening the eyes of the people of his own State 

 to the vast importance of economic entoinology that the State 

 Horticultural Society at last petitioned the Legislature to appoint 

 a State entomologist, and, accordingly, at the session of 1866-67 

 a bill was passed authorizing the appointment of such an ofticer 

 with a salary of $2000 per annum, the appointment being vested 

 in the Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate. As 

 Acting State Entomologist he issued his first annual report for 

 1867." 



