. A century of biological research. Illinois. Natural History Survey Division. 90 Illinois Natural History Survey Bulli-tin Vol. 27, Art. 2 specific and forthright resolution (Revn- olds 1868:18): Resolved, That whenever a sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) shall have been obtained, by legislative action or otherwise, for an annual salary, this Board will then appoint a competent scientific man as State Entomologist. Rcsoh'ed, That Mr. B. D. Walsh be and he is hereby appointed State Entomologist, sub- ject to the preceding resolution. The legislature listened to these pleas and in 1867 pa
. A century of biological research. Illinois. Natural History Survey Division. 90 Illinois Natural History Survey Bulli-tin Vol. 27, Art. 2 specific and forthright resolution (Revn- olds 1868:18): Resolved, That whenever a sum of fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500) shall have been obtained, by legislative action or otherwise, for an annual salary, this Board will then appoint a competent scientific man as State Entomologist. Rcsoh'ed, That Mr. B. D. Walsh be and he is hereby appointed State Entomologist, sub- ject to the preceding resolution. The legislature listened to these pleas and in 1867 passed a law which author- ized the Governor, with the consent of the Senate, to appoint a state entomologist. The work of this officer was considerably handicapped. \Vhile he was voted a salary, he was given no work fund, and the first three persons t<j hold the position main- tained their offices in their homes or in offices devoted to other purposes. The job was a difficult one, and Forbes (1915: 7-8) once rather facetiously wrote: He [Walsh] performed as well as he could his various duties of private, captain, colonel, adjutant, and major-general of this new- force—and in two years he was dead. He had two successors enlisted for the war on precisely the same terms, the first of whom, Dr. Wm. Le Baron, of Geneva, Hlinois, main- tained for five years the unequal contest, when he also died ; and the second, Dr. Cyrus Thomas, of Carbondale, abandoned the field in despair after seven years of diligent serv- ice, going then to Washington for work in another department of science, where he lived to the good old age of eighty-five. I have sometimes wondered if his long survival was. Benjamin Dann Walsh, State Entomologist, Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Mills, Harlow Burgess, 1906
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