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remaining abroad about six years. At the age of seventeen 
he emigrated to America, where for three years he was 
engaged on a farm in Illinois. He was afterwards reporter 
for newspapers, including the " Prairie Farmer," in which 
appeared most of his early writings. During the Civil War 
he served for six months with the Illinois volunteers. In 
1868, in conjunction with the late B. J). Walsh, he started 
the " American Entomologist." A second volume appeared 
in 1870, and a third in 1880. In 1868, he accepted the 
position of State Entomologist for Missouri, and the nine 
Annual Keports published during his tenure of office proved 
the thoroughness of his work, his skill as an artist, and 
his originality. In 1877, he was appointed the head of a 
commission to inquire into the life-history of the Eocky 
Mountain locust, and in 1878, and from 1881 to 1894, he 
was Government Entomologist to the United States, with a 
staff of assistants. During this period he published annual 
reports, wrote many of the bulletins, and established the 
journal known as "Insect Life," which he edited to the 
end of Vol. VI., in 1894. In 1894 he sent in his resignation. 
As Hon. Curator of the Entomological Collections of the 
United States National Museum, he found time to commence 
scientific systematic work, to which he had long looked 
forward. For his suggestions as to reviving the French 
vineyards by using certain American Phylloxera-^YOof stocks 
on which to graft. Prof. Eiley received the Gold Medal of 
the French Government, subsequently he received the Cross 
of the Legion d'Honneur in connection with the Exhibition of 
1889. His services in connection with the Eocky Mountain 
Locust, the Cotton Worm, and the Australian Icerya, are 
too well-known to require detailed notice ; in this latter case 
he was the first to prove the practicability of introducing 
from abroad the insect enemies that help to check the 
ravages of an imported species in its native country. Prof. 
Eiley joined the Entomological Society in 1871, and was 
elected an Hon. Fellow in 1889 ; he was also an Hon. Fellow 
of the Eoyal Agricultural Society, and of many of the 
leading Entomological Societies on the Continent. 
Prof. Charles Card ale Babington, M.A., F.E.S., etc., was 
