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science, and illustrated by a draughtsman untrained in natural 
history drawing, it remains a permanent example of misplaced 
confidence and liberality ; an equal disgrace to the legislation, the 
science and the art, of the great state in which it was published. 
The possibility of acquiring some knowledge of our insects, 
without the possession of large costly libraries which up to this pe- 
riod were indispensable, soon made the science more popular; and 
the names of the species beginning to be known, many persons 
were attracted to form collections, and others to the equally fas- 
cinating study of the life history of individual objects. 
Thus arose the present condition of economic entomology ; and 
the biological studies commenced years before by Dr. Harris were 
worthily continued by Dr. A. Fitch of New York, and the state en- 
tomologists afterwards appointed in seyeral of the Western States. 
Most prominent among those to whom we are indebted for the 
development of practical entomology was the lamented B. 
Walsh, of Rock Island, Illinois ; an Englishman by birth, bringing 
to this country a mind well trained in classical and scientific in- 
struction by a thorough University course, and animated by an 
enthusiastic love not only for science but for truth and consistency 
in life. 
The ‘Practical Entomologist,” a monthly magazine, published 
(1865 to 1867) by a committee of the entomological society of 
Philadelphia, was edited chiefly by him. Its successors, the 
“ American Entomologist” and “ American Entomologist and Bot- 
anist,” of Saint Louis, were edited by Mr, Walsh, and Mr. C. V. 
Riley, the accomplished state entomologist of Missouri. These 
volumes will be often referred to, not only for the meritorious es- 
Says on injurious insects and for the excellent suggestions towards 
controlling these pests, but still more for the fearless and caustic 
manner in which the editors exposed many quack contrivances for 
exterminating our insect enemies ; thus endeavoring to protect our 
too credulous farmers against the pretensions of ignorant invent- 
ors and shameless empirics. 
Last to be mentioned, because the most recent, of the aids for 
' the cultivation of entomology, and for popularizing the science, 
is the “ Guide to the Study of Insects,” by Dr. A. S. Packard, Jr. ; 
a most judicious and excellent compilation from the best works on 
the various orders, adapted to the North American fauna, and il- 
lustrated with copious and well drawn original figures, combined 
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