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age of fifty-two, with the most profound regret. The works 
which Prof. Kiley had given to the scientific world, and especially 
his most important series of Annual Eeports on the injurious 
insects of Missouri, would stand as monuments of his labour. 
In addition to his services to economic entomology Riley had 
a philosophical side, and the last personal reminiscence which 
he (the President) had of the distinguished observer, whose 
loss they all deplored, was a prolonged discussion held at 
Prof. Poulton's, where Eiley and Prof. Osborn were staying 
as guests at the time of the last Oxford meeting of the 
British Association. The President added that he was 
particularly struck on that occasion with the breadth and 
profundity of Riley's speculative faculty in the field of 
general biology. Prof. Babington, although more generally 
known as a botanist, had been identified to some extent with 
entomology in his earlier days. 
Mr. Blandford said : The name of Charles Valentine 
Riley is one that should be held in honour by every ento- 
mologist, whatever his line of study may be, as that of the 
man who, directly and indirectly, has done most to teach the 
outside non- scientific world that entomology is a serious 
pursuit, capable of conferring real and great practical benefits, 
and no mere pastime. While it is true that America has 
reaped the chief benefit of his labours, we are proud to 
recollect that he was an Englishman, born at Chelsea in 
1843, and that his interest in insects was quickened by his 
visits in early life to the Hewitson collection. Emigrating to 
America he settled on a farm in Illinois, and there began his 
assiduous series of observations on living insects. His first 
papers were published in 1863, in the ''Prairie Farmer," and in 
1868 he was appointed entomologist to the State of Missouri, 
for the benefit of which he issued nine remarkable and 
laborious reports. In 1878 he became entomologist to the 
Department of Agriculture of the United States, and under 
his control the Division of Entomology reached a position 
such as no similar organization has ever 'approached, and has 
become a model for the world. Nothing shows his extra- 
ordinary industry better than a glance at Henshaw's Biblio- 
graphy of his writings. He is credited therein, between 1863 
