FLORIDA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
During the seventies we find Pack¬ 
ard and Comstock naming the common 
scales of citrus and other trees. 
It should be explained that active 
work in entomology in Florida appears 
to be mainly contemporaneous with 
the development of the Bureau of En¬ 
tomology, U. S. Department of Agri¬ 
culture, Washington, D. C. Thus, as 
just noted, we find Comstock, who suc¬ 
ceeded Glover as Entomologist in 
Washington, describing a large num¬ 
ber of Florida scales at the latter end 
of the seventies. 
During the eighties, when C. V. 
Riley became Entomologist of the Bu¬ 
reau of Entomology, U. S. Department 
of Agriculture, we find at least two 
agents of this bureau at work in Flor¬ 
ida. H. G. Hubbard appears to have 
labored mainly in and near Crescent 
City, while Joseph Voyle was stationed 
at Gainesville. A large part of Hub¬ 
bard’s work was crystallized in his 
book on “Insects of the Orange,” 1885, 
while Voyle wrote on the scale insects 
of the orange, Bulletin No. 1, 1883, 
Division of Entomology, U. S. Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture. 
There is one Entomologist who ap¬ 
pears to outrank all the others, and 
that is William H. Ashmead. He and 
his brother, under the name of Ash¬ 
mead Brothers, operated a book house 
and printing establishment in Jackson¬ 
ville during the latter seventies and 
eighties. Two papers, a daily and a 
weekly, were published. The weekly, 
known as “The Florida Dispatch,” was 
an agricultural paper of which the sci¬ 
entific department was edited by Wil¬ 
liam H. Ashmead. That the rust of 
r-jr 
oranges is caused by the rust-mite is 
one of his discoveries, made in 1879. 
1885 he gave a brief description, in 
“The Florida Dispatch,” of the white- 
fly, and named it Aleyrodes citri, al¬ 
though in scientific circles he is not 
credited with this. His book on “Or¬ 
ange Insects,” 1880, is one of the first 
to be written on that subject. In 1888, 
Ashmead became Entomologist of the 
Florida State Agricultural College at 
Lake City. Later (1889) he was called 
to the Bureau of Entomology, U. S. 
Department of Agriculture, Washing¬ 
ton, D. C., and in 1897 was made As¬ 
sistant Curator of Insects in the U. S. 
National Museum. His death occurred 
October 17th, 1908. 
Following Ashmead at the Agricul¬ 
tural College and Experiment Station 
was J. C. Neal, then Prof. P. H. Rolfs, 
with A. L. Quaintance as an associate; 
later comes H. A. Gossard, E. H. Sel- 
lards, and the writer. It will hardly be 
necessary to refer to the work accom¬ 
plished by these Experiment Station 
workers in Entomology, since most of 
them have appeared before this society 
and their papers are published in the 
Transactions. 
Of all the Entomological workers 
enumerated, Mr. Quaintance appears 
to be the only truly Florida product, 
and has been called out of the State to 
do duty with the Bureau of Entomol¬ 
ogy at Washington. 
During the early nineties, and con¬ 
temporaneously with about the first 
decade of the Experiment Station, 
there were several workers from the 
Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Depart¬ 
ment of Agriculture, in the State. 
