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nature and inclinations; you must have reveled in it. It must have meant 

 any amount of strenuous effort; but after all, that is the gist of life, and 

 makes life worth living." These comments rather adequately summarized 

 the lives of both these gifted men. They came here as immigrant lads from 

 England and through diligence and dedication gave North Carolinians, 

 and indeed in a larger sense all Americans, the great legacy of a wealth of 

 knowledge about our natural heritage. This journal is dedicated to their 

 memory. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENTS.—! would like to thank Alexa C. Williams, 

 John B. Funderburg, William M. Palmer, and Rowland M. Shelley, N.C. 

 State Museum, and our former employee Sarah S. Robinson, for 

 assistance in locating certain information; James F. Greene, Division of 

 Pesticides and Plant protection, N.C. Department of Agriculture, for 

 providing some of C.S. Brimley's notebooks; and Elaine H. Matthews, 

 Public Relations Division, same department, for providing specific docu- 

 ments. Alexa C. Williams, Martha R. Cooper, and David S. Lee, all of the 

 State Museum, made constructive criticisms of the manuscript, but any 

 remaining atrocities are mine. 



SOURCES. — Quotations whose specific sources are not identified in the 

 text are from correspondence, unpublished manuscripts, and scripts and 

 sketches of various kinds contained in the archives of the North Carolina 

 State Museum of Natural History. The photographs are also from these 

 archives. Some information on H.H. Brimley came from brief biographical 

 sketches by Harry T. Davis (1946. J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 62:128-129) 

 and C.S. Brimley (1946. Chat 10:42-43). Developments in the Department 

 of Agriculture were obtained from biennial reports of the Board of 

 Agriculture and the commissioner of agriculture published in Raleigh. 

 Franklin Sherman's comments anent the Insect Survey are from biennial 

 reports and from "Progress on State Insect Survey with comparative data 

 on other animal groups" (1925. J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 47:129-134). 

 The comments by W.T. Bost are from the Greensboro Daily News, 27 July 

 1946. Information on Commissioner Polk mostly came from Stuart 

 Noblin's two-part article, "Leonidas Lafayette Polk and the North 

 Carolina Department of Agriculture" (1943. N.C. Historical Review 

 AT:103-121, 197-218). Some of H.H. Brimley's writings, including verse, 

 were compiled and annotated by E.P. Odum (1949. A North Carolina 

 Naturalist, H.H. Brimley. Univ. North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill). Ad- 

 ditional information on the Brimley brothers is contained in a history of 

 the Department of Agriculture's involvement in natural history studies 

 prepared by John B. Funderburg and me (in manuscript). 



Accepted 19 December 1978 



