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There is no need of any comment npon these nine Missouri reports 
before any body of economic or scientific entomologists. They are 
monuments to the State of Missouri, and more especially to the man 
who wrote them. Tbey are original, practical, and scientific ; they cover 
a very great range of injurious insects, and practically all the species 
which were especially injurious during those nine years received full and 
careful treatment. They maybe said to have formed the basis for the 
new economic entomology of the world, and they include a multitude 
of observations and intelligent deductions which have influenced scien- 
tific thought. Their value to the agriculturist, as well as to scientific 
readers, was greatly enhanced by the remarkable series of illustrations 
which were drawn by the author and engraved upon wood by the 
most skillful wood engravers of that time. Aside from a few of the 
illustrations to the Flint edition of Harris, they are the best wood cuts 
ever made of insects in this country, and as a whole the drawing far 
excels that of the Harris illustrations in its lifelike accuracy, artistic 
beauty, and closeness of detail. Prof. Riley abandoned his Missouri 
work on taking up the directorship of the U. S. Entomological Com- 
mission, and in pursuance of a shortsighted policy Missouri has never 
since had a State entomologist. 
Other States and the Hatch State Agricultural Experi- 
ment Stations. — Massachusetts, New York, Illinois, and Missouri are 
the only States which may be said to have supported official economic 
entomologists. There are letters on file in the Division, dated in 1880, 
from Mr. J. T. Humphreys, who announces himself in his letter head as 
"Late naturalist and entomologist to the Georgia Department of Agri- 
culture;" but although I have made something of an effort to learn the 
details of Mr. Humphreys's employment, I have so far been unsuc- 
cessful. The State of Pennsylvania has for some years handled its 
economic entomology by means of an officer who holds an honorary 
commission from the State board of agriculture. This commission was 
held for some years prior to his death by Dr. S. S. Rath von. At the 
present time Dr. Henry Skinner, of Philadelphia, and Dr. R. C. 
Scheidt, of Lancaster, are entomologists to the State board. 
In the spring of 1888, the State Agricultural Experiment Stations, 
founded under the Hatch Act, were organized. * A number of entomol- 
ogists were soon appointed and active work began practically in the 
month of February. This movement, the importance of which to 
American economic entomology can hardly be overestimated, is too 
recent to require full treatment here. 
The first entomological bulletin published by any of the experiment 
stations was issued in April, 1888, from the Arkansas station, by Mr. S. H. 
Crossman, and was entitled The Peach-tree Borer and the Codling Moth. 
Bulletins from Hulst, in New Jersey; Morse, in California; Tracy, in 
Mississippi; Ashinead,in Florida; and Weed, in Ohio, followed in May. 
Popenoe, in Kansas, and Perkins, in Vermont, published one each in 
