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ST. LOUIS, MO., MARCH, 1870. 



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TEUMS Two dollars per annum in advance. 



CHARLES V. RILEY, Editor. 

 MR. WAL8HS PORTRAIT. 



Nothing perpetuates so well the memory of a 

 departed friend as a good and life-lilie portrait. 

 Wc may do our best to pen a trutliful .sketch of 

 a man's life, and yet fall far short of conveying 

 a just and correct impression to tliose who 

 never saw him in the flesh. A good portrait, 

 however — phrenology or no phrenology — is at 

 once the mirror of a man's character, and in a 

 great measure his biography. In it the dead 

 live again to near and dear ones, and by it 

 future generations will judge a man more cor- 

 rectly. The editor takes great pleasure, there- 

 fore, in presenting the accompanying portrait of 

 Mr. Walsh, and feels that it is the best tribute he 

 has the power of paying to Ins departed associate. 



We arc much pleased with the plate, for it 

 is a good likeness. In it the wonted humor 

 yet twinkles from those ejes which are now 

 closed forever in Ijic quiet rest of the grave, and 

 tlie facetious smile yet lurks around those lips 

 which are nevermore to utter word again ! 



As a fitting accompaniment to the portrait, 

 wc publish the following resolutions, from 

 among several others which we have received : 



"/'/■u,, , ,/; ' </■'' / ' /:'-,' t' !ln Eiitomologieal 



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"Tlu'inii-m 111, iv-uliiiii-ii- '.M 1 i u 11,1 iiuiiously adopted: 

 •^ Jii/mii;,/ , 1 li:it wc, (lie mi'iiiljcr.s of this society, 

 have leariied with deep regret of the sudden death of 

 IJciij. D. Walsh, Esq., State Entomologist of Illinois. 

 We liave long admired liis zeal and earnestness in en- 

 deavoring to advance entomological science, and we 

 feel that our favorite study has lost in him one of its 

 staunchest supporters and advocates, and those of u.s 

 who had the privilege of his personal acquaintance, a 

 warm friend. We tender our lieartfelt sympathies to 

 his bereaved widow and friends, and assure them that 

 his labor of love, manifest in his many valuable contri- 

 liutions to entomological literature, will ever be fondly 

 rlieiishod in oiu' memories. 



"SesuheJ, That tlie Secretary be instructed to trans- 

 mit copies of the above resolution to the widow of the 

 late B. D. Walsh, and also to the editors of the Ameri- 

 ca7t J^ntonutlogut and Cathadian Entomologist, with a 

 re<iuest to insert the same in their next issues. 



"G. M. INNES, President. 



" Ed.mund Baynes Reed, Sec'y and Tre.as. ' ' 



' ' EHraet from tlie Minutes of tlie Meeting of the American 

 Entomological Society, held January 10, 1870. 



"Resolved, That this Society has heard with llie 

 deepest regret of the great loss sustained by the science 

 of entomology, in the death of our late member, Beuj . 

 D. Walsh of Rock Island, State Entomologist of IlUuois. 



"Jiesolred, That this Society hereby testifies to the 

 great worth and seientitic attainments of the deceased, 

 whose pen was ever ready to defend, uphold and spread 

 abroad the benefits derived from the popular study and 

 knowledge of entomological science. 



"Jtesolred, That the Corresponding Secretary be di- 

 rected to transmit to the widow of the deceased a copy 

 of these resolutions, as a slight expression of the sym- 

 pathy of the Society with her in this great affliction. ' ' 



' ' Pi-eamlile and Resolution, passed In/ the Illinois Slate 

 Horticultural Society. 



" WiiEUEAS, We have learned with deep regret of the 

 decease of Benj. D. Walsh, A. M,, State Entomologist, 



"Ji'esolred, That in view of his scientific acquirements, 

 which had secured for him a national reputation, liis 

 zeal in investigation, and his practical mode of com- 

 municating his discoveries, we consider liis death, in 

 the vigor of intellect, as a loss to the public not likely 

 soon to be repaired. Arthur Bryant, Sr., 



" Chairman of Committee." 



'^I'rcanihle and Itesolutions passed unanimovsly at the An- 

 nual Meeting of the Kansas State Horticultural Society. 

 "Preamble: It having pleased God to open the 

 portals of eternity, and take from the earth— the great 

 field of his usefulness— Benjamin D. Walsh, State Ento- 

 mologist of Illinois and senior editor of the American 

 Entomologist, it beruiiio oiii- -ad duty, in reverently 

 bowing to the diviiir lulir-i. 1.. admit the obligations 

 (Irn a>i il ha.- |)hu-ed us, in common 

 ,s oi the \Vc>l, by a patient, persever- 

 ing devotion of a lifetime to the science of entomology 

 as applied to the highest material interests of this Associa- 

 tion and tlic commonwealth of Kansas; therefore, be it 

 ''Jiesolned, That we hereby formally express the sor- 

 row inseparable from our great loss in the death of Jlr. 

 Walsh, in the midst of hisgreat and increasing \isefulness. 

 " Resohed, That this preamble and resolutions be 

 spread upon the records of this Society, and that an 

 authenticated copy thereof be transmitted to the widow 

 of the deceased, and to C. V, Riley, Esq., surviving 

 editor of the American Entomologist. 



" G. C. Brackett, Secretary." 



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