120 Trans. Acad. Sci. of St. Louis. 
an unobstructed pathway or channel from the Mississippi 
to the Gulf of Mexico; Charles V. Riley,** the investigator 
of the ravages and life history of the Rocky Mountain 
Locust and the organizer and first head of the United 
States Bureau of Entomology, the man who saved the 
grape industry of Europe from the ravages of the Amer- 
ican Phylloxera by grafting the susceptible European va- 
rieties upon roots of the more resistant American spe- 
cies; Benjamin F. Shumard,** of the Missouri State Geo- 
logical Survey, and later State Geologist of Texas; 
George Clinton Swallow, who conducted the geological 
survey of this state from 1853 to 1860 and made known 
the vast coal beds of Missouri; Theodore C. Hilgard,‘® 
whose work on phyllotaxis and kindred subjects is well 
known, and Abram Litton,*® the first thoroughly trained 
chemist west of the Mississippi. 
The act of incorporation declares the object of the 
Academy to be the advancement of science and the estab- 
46 Nipher, F. E. Charles V. Riley. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis. 7: 
xlvi-xlvii. 1895. 
Packard, A. S. Charles Valentine Riley. Science. II. 2: 745-751. 
1895. 
Goode, G. B. A memorial appreciation of Charles Valentine Riley. 
Science. II. 3: 217-225. 1896. 
Howard, L. 0. Charles Valentine Riley. Proc. Soc. Pro. Agric. Sci. 
17: 108-112 1896. 
Howard, L. O. Charles Valentine Riley. Bull. Phil. Soc. Washing- 
ton. 13: 412-416. 1900. 
Spaulding, Perley. A biographical _— of botany at St. Louis, 
Missouri. Pop. Sci. Month. 1909: 2. 
47 Benjamin F. Shumard. Trans. Acad. Sci. St. Louis. 3: xvii 1869. 
Benjamin F. Shumard. Amer. Jour. Sci. Il. 48: 294-296. 1869. 
Yandell, L. P. A biographical sketch of Benjamin Franklin phaanie: 
Western Jour. Med. 4: 738-749. 1869. 
48 Theo. C. Hilgard. Trans. Acad. Sci. St..Louis. 3: clxxvi. 1875. 
Spaulding, Perley. A biographical history of botany at St. Louis, 
Missouri. Pop. Sci. Month. 1909: 130-133. 
*° Broadhead, G. C. Abram Litton, M.D. Acad. Sci. St. Louis. 12: 
Xxiv-xxvii. 1902. 
Ab 
ram Litton. St. Louis Cour. Med. 30: 312-313. 1904. 
