ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES, PHILADELPHIA. 



Vol. XXII. 



MARCH, 1911. 



No. 3. 



CONTENTS 



Howard — Address at the Dedication of 

 the Entomology and Zoology- Build- 

 ing- of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural College, Nov. 11, 1910 97 



Skinner — A new Argynnis and a new 

 Parnassius (Lep.) 108 



Felt — Two new Gall Midges (Dipt.)-.. 109 



Girault — Notes on Tyloderma foveola- 

 tum (Say) (Col ) 112 



Wolcott — New American Cleridae,with 

 notes on others (Col.) 115 



Kearfott — Three new Brazilian Micro- 



Lepidoptera 125 



Felt — Endaphis Kieif. in the Americas 



(Dipt.) 128 



Editorial 130 



Notes and News 131 



Entomological Literature 134 



Doings of Societies 138 



Address at the Dedication of the Entomology and 

 Zoology Building of the Massachusetts Agri- 

 cultural College, Nov. U, 19 10.* 



By L. O. Howard, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, 



D. C. 

 When Professor Fernald began to teach entomology in 

 the Maine State College at Orono, in 1872, there was only 

 one other teacher of the subject in the United States, and 

 that was Dr. Hagen, at Harvard, who had only an occasional 

 student. Of earlier attempts to teach entomology on this side 

 of the Atlantic there is little of record. W. D. Peck lectured 

 at Harvard in the earlier years of the last century, and after 

 183 1, T. W. Harris, while librarian of Harvard, had a private 

 class in entomolog}'^, meeting one evening a week, and on Sat- 

 urday afternoons went with his class in good weather on a 

 ramble. Colonel Higginson writes : "Doctor Harris was so 

 simple and eager, his tall spare form and thin face took on 

 such a glow and freshness ; he dwelt so lovingly on antennae 

 and tarsi and handled so fondly his little insect martyrs, that 

 it was enough to make one love this study for life beyond all 

 branches of natural science." 



* Reprinted from Science for December 2, 1910. 



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