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ologists were busy — Fitch in Xew York, Riley in Missouri, 

 Le Baron in Illinois and Glover in Washington. The system- 

 atic workers and those who studied the habits of insects were 

 more numerous — Le Conte, Horn, Osten Sacken, Lintner, 

 V. T. Chambers, E. T. Cresson, S. H. Scudder, W. H. Ed- 

 wards and his colleague T. L. Mead, Henry Edwards, A. R. 

 Grote and his colleague Coleman T. Robinson, P. R. Uhler, 

 H. F. Bassett, R. H. Stretch, F. G. Sanborn. S. S. Rathvon. 

 Cyrus Thomas. H. C. McCook. G. R. Crotch, H. Behr, C. 

 Zimmerman, George Dimmock, C. S. Minot. P. S. Sprague, 

 F. Blanchard. C. A. Blake, Edward Norton, H. Shimer, T. 

 ]\Ieehan, E. D. Cope, E. P. Austin, J. Behrens, Jas. Ridings, 

 A. J. Cook, W. \". Andrews. Edward Burgess, L. F. Harvey, 



F. H. Snow, G. Lincecum, J. H. Emerton, Mary E. Murtfeldt, 



G. M. Dodge. C. R. Dodge, Thomas G. Gentr}-, H. K. Mor- 

 rison, A. S. Fuller, E. L. Graef, and, across the border in Can- 

 ada, Abbe Provancher. William Saunders, Rev. C. J. S. Beth- 

 une, William Couper and E. Baynes Reed were about all. 



And it must be remembered that nearly all of these men 

 had had no training and were scientifically untaught ; nearly 

 all were engaged in professions or in business, and that en- 

 tomology was but a side issue and not the sole interest of their 

 lives — in fact with many of them it was simply an amuse- 

 ment, a fad. But I do not intend to detract from the value 

 of their work. They and their few predecessors laid a strong 

 systematic foundation for the work which has been done since, 

 and for that which is still to come. It should be pointed out, 

 however, that, systematically speaking, whole groups of the 

 Xorth American entomological complex were unknown. The 

 Coleoptera and Lepidoptera and certain families in the Dip- 

 tera and Hymenoptera had been studied by these men, but 

 a field of unknown greatness remained unexplored. 



Something must be said also of the influence of the un- 

 usual personality of some of these men in attracting others 

 to the study. I have in mind especially Rev. J. G. ^lorris and 

 Henry Ulke, neither of whom is mentioned in the list ; jMorris 

 because at that period he had stopped publishing and Ulke 



