. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. Ue 1958 Mills: From 1858 to 1958 89 seen and experienced, were not well un- derstood. Official entomolog;y was born during this period. The agriculturists felt the need of assistance and cried out to the government for it. At the end of the Civil War, the Presi- dent of the young Illinois State Horticul- tural Society, John P. Reynolds, spoke \igorously on the subject at the December 19, 1865, meeting of the Society at Nor- mal. In his retiring address, Reynolds (1866:8) said: And, first, the appointment of a State Entomologist. The time has been i
. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. Ue 1958 Mills: From 1858 to 1958 89 seen and experienced, were not well un- derstood. Official entomolog;y was born during this period. The agriculturists felt the need of assistance and cried out to the government for it. At the end of the Civil War, the Presi- dent of the young Illinois State Horticul- tural Society, John P. Reynolds, spoke \igorously on the subject at the December 19, 1865, meeting of the Society at Nor- mal. In his retiring address, Reynolds (1866:8) said: And, first, the appointment of a State Entomologist. The time has been in this State when it required some moral courage for any one to advocate the appointment and (ompfTisaiiou from the treasury of an officer to look after the bugs, but I venture the opinion that there is no subject in which you, as amateur or professional horticulturists, have a more direct, immediate or larger pe- cuniary interest, than in Entomology— . . No one who has given the subject any atten- tion will question the truth of the statement that the people of Illinois are to-day many millions of riollars poorer bv reason of noxious insects; nor the additional statement that a very large proportion of this loss might have been averted by the labors of a competent Entomologist with a little means at his disposal. In 1866 the Horticultural Society, meeting at Champaign, passed the fol- lowing resolution (Deyo 1867:58): Resolved, That we most urgently pray the honorable legislature of our great state to appoint a State Entomologist, that Agricul- turists and Horticulturists may not quite despair of ever overcoming the giant insec- tiforous [j/t] difficulties in the way of suc- cess in their professions. As one eminently qualified, and the highest in his profession in the whole west, we most hopefully mention the name of Benjamin D. Walsh, of Rock Island. The Horticultural Society was not alone in this movement. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Illinois State Agri
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