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1907 Rev. Wirtner suggested that they get together during the AAAS 
meeting in Boston that summer (17), but he was unable to attend the 
meeting. He then indicated that he would be able to visit Van Duzee 
in Buffalo during the summer of 1908 (23). That trip, too, was post¬ 
poned (24), and it appears that the two never got together before Van 
Duzee moved to California in 1913. They last corresponded in 1915, 
and Rev. Wirtner’s work on Hemiptera virtually ended when he left 
Pennsylvania for Kentucky in 1916. Even though he returned to 
western Pennsylvania in 1919, Wirtner’s study of Hemiptera was cur¬ 
tailed by church duties (Wheeler and Henry, 1977) and his association 
with Mr. Van Duzee apparently was not renewed. 
Acknowledgments 
I am grateful to the Rev. Maximilian G. Duman, O.S.B., Department 
of Biology, St. Vincent College, for his assistance and interest 
throughout this study. Dr. W. R. Enns, Department of Entomology, 
University of Missouri, and Mrs. Margaret Campbell, Archivist, 
California Academy of Sciences, kindly provided copies of the 
Wirtner-Van Duzee correspondence. Finally, I thank Dr. K. Valley and 
T. J. Henry, Bureau of Plant Industry, Pennsylvania Department of 
Agriculture, for reviewing the manuscript. 
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Letters Cited 
1. Oct. 13, 1899, from Rev. Wirtner to E.P. Van Duzee. 
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