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To celebrate his 74th birthday, on June ll a dinner was given in 
his honor at the Cosmos Club and attended by a great number of his Wash- 
ington associates and friends. Dr. Charles G. Abbot, Secretary of the 
Smithsonian Institution, was toastmaster, and laudatory speeches were 
made by Dr. A. F. Woods, Director of Scientific Work of the Department, 
and by five other of Doctor Howard's friends. 
During the last few weeks before his retirement many of his collea— 
gues called on him to show their appreciation of his work and to wish him - 
a happy and successful voyage. On June 26 the Washington personnel of 
the Bureau, through their spokesman, Miss Mabel Colcord, presented him 
with a camera and awriting portfolio asa token of esteem and appreciation. 
The members of the Cosmos Club were given an opportunity to bid 
farewell to Dr. Howard at an informal reception held in his honor on the 
evening of June 29. 
On the eve of his departure Dr. Howard expressed his appreciation 
to the Bureau personnel in the following letter: 
"To the People in the Bureau of Entomology: 
"Tomorrow I am leaving the Bureau. I cannot go without 
Saying more than I shall have the opportunity to say tomorrow 
when I shake your hands. I wish to thank you for so many 
things in the way of kindness, courtesy, and help, that I 
should be obliged, if I were to go into particulars, to write a 
letter so long that you could not spare the time to read it. 
"My fifty-two and a half years with the Bureau have been 
very happy ones, and to state how much of my happiness has been 
due to the way the people in the Bureau have greeted me and have 
helped me would seem to you almost as an exaggeration. You are 
all fine people, and I shall often think of you in the years 
that may be remaining to me. Although I am leaving the country 
very soon, I hope some day to come back and to shake your hands 
again. 
"Thank you all from the bottom of my heart." 
