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It may perhaps be unwise to ignore the 

 fact that the credit of certain of Eiley's 

 achievements has been claimed by otliers, 

 in some instances by those who were first 

 to call attention to facts out of which these 

 achievements have grown, in other instances 

 by those who were employed by Professor 

 Eiley to carry his ideas into effect. 



It would be fruitless to enter into the 

 consideration of any of these claims. Some 

 of the claimants are perhaps entitled to a 

 larger share of credit than has been given 

 them in the official publications in which 

 the results of their work are discussed. It 

 is doubtful, however, whether in any in- 

 stance any other would have succeeded so 

 soon, or so completely as did Riley. His, 

 in every instance, was the directing mind. 

 It was he who chose the man through whose 

 agency the work was accomplished. It was 

 the mind of Eiley which directed, and the 

 will of Eiley which controlled, the activities 

 of his agents. It is my honest conviction 

 that in most instances the agents would 

 neither have begun the work under other 

 circumstances, or completed it, except under 

 such control, and that he was able to have 

 done the work unaided, the results of his 

 first years' efforts, when he was laboring 

 single-handed, fully demonstrate. 



There cannot well be better evidence of 

 the eminence of the man and the value of 

 his work than the testimony of the numer- 

 ous journals in their comments upon his 

 death, and especially the journals which are 

 devoted to ecomonic methods rather than 

 those of the professional men of science. 



The Canadian Entomologist, London, On- 

 tario, said: 



" As an economic entomologist, taking bim for all 

 in all, he was the most eminent the -world has ever 

 seen."* 



Natural Science, London, f called him ' the 

 prince of economic entomologists,' and says 



* Canadian Entomologist, October, 1895, 273. 

 t Natural Science, November, 1895, 360. 



of his reports that they are " characterized 

 by scientific accuracy coupled with clear 

 and popular exposition, and while of special 

 value to the farmer, fruit grower and 

 forester, they abound with observations of 

 interest to the pure naturalist." 

 Psyche, Cambridge, said : 



"In his death America loses not only its best 

 knoven entomologist, but one who by his ability, sa- 

 gacity, example and the line his studies have taken, 

 has done more for the advancement of our special 

 science than any one America has ever reared. ' ' * 



The editor of The Farmers' Magazine, of 

 London, wrote : 



"His studies of Hessian-fly and the Hop-fly, in 

 England, have a direct bearing upon our agricultural 

 prosperity, and his election as an honorary member 

 of the Eoyal Agricultural Society, and still more re- 

 cently as an Honorary Fellow of the Entomological 

 Society of London, testify to the esteem in which he 

 he is held, not only by our representatives of ad- 

 vanced agriculture, but also by those engaged here in 

 investigations in the field of pure entomology. ' ' f 



E. McLachlan, F. E. S., in the Entomolo- 

 gists'' Monthly Magazine, London, said: 



" The Missouri Reports proved the thoroughness of 

 his work, his originality in di^^sing mechanical 

 means for distributing the remedial agents he 

 adopted and his great skill as an artist. These Re- 

 ports drew forth the highest encomiums all over the 

 world. * * * Eiley was nothing if not original. 

 There was probably only one real fiasco in his career. 

 The rapid spread of the Colorado Beetle induced him 

 to predict its speedy appearance on this side of the 

 Atlantic. The Colorado Beetle disappointed him by 

 not acting up to his anticipations, "t 



W. Fream, writing in the Journal of the 

 Eoyal Agricultural Society of England, 

 spoke of him as " the greatest agricultural 

 entomologist of our age," and said : 



" In him a striking presence was associated with a 

 versatile genius. Naturalist, linguist, artist, soldier, 

 he was withal a delightful companion, a sincere 

 friend. In that branch of study which he made pe- 

 culiarly his own he has established an ideal which few 



* Psyche, November, 1895, p. 308. 

 t The Farmers' Magazine, I., 221. 

 XEntomologists' Slonthhj 3Iagazine, No. 378, Nov- 

 ember, 1895, 269. 



