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because he had not published at all. Both of these men, rare- 

 ly attractive, lived long, Morris dying in 1895 at the age of 

 ninety-two and Ulke in the present year at eighty-nine, and 

 both of them undoubtedly made entomologists of others by 

 their personal charm and enthusiasm. 



There were then in 1873 three teachers of entomology, two 

 of them just beginning, three state entomologists, one of them 

 (Fitch) already at the end of his work, a government entom- 

 ologist, who, on account of his mental make-up, was adding 

 little to the progress of the science, and a small body of ama- 

 teur entomologists engaged in all sorts of occupations, but 

 whose systematic work as a whole compared favorably in 

 equality with that of the workers of other countries. The 

 Canadian Entomologist had been started, and the American 

 Entomological Society was publishing good entomological 

 papers. 



At the present time, after thirty-seven years, what a change 

 is to be seen ! In the place of the few score self-trained ento- 

 mologists, there is now an army. The American Entomologi- 

 cal Society is still in existence, and publishes, in addition to its 

 Transactions, an admirable entomological journal, Entomol- 

 ogical News. The Entomological Society of Washington has 

 been founded, with its quarterly Proceedings now well along 

 in its twelfth volume. The Albany Entomological Society, 

 the New York and Brooklyn societies, the California Ento- 

 mological Society, the Society of Southern Economic Ento- 

 mologists and the great Association of Economic Entomolo- 

 gists with its list of foreign members in all parts of the 

 world and its universally-read Journal of Economic Entomol- 

 ogy, and, latest of all, the Entomological Society of America 

 with its large list of members and fellows and its entirely 

 competent annals and its representation the present year at 

 the first International Entomological Congress — all have 

 sprung into healthy and progressive existence since those days. 



In place of the two active state workers in economic en- 

 tomology, Le Baron in Illinois and Riley in Missouri, and of 

 the single government entomologist, there is now in practically 



