Riley, Charles Valentine. First Annual Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and Other Insects. Illustrated. Subject: plum curculio, potato beetle, bank lice, apple tree borers, periodical cicada, black borer, Lepidoptera, Aegeridae, Coleoptera, Buprestidae, Chrysobothris femorata, plum curculio, Conotrachelus nenuphar, apple worm, Carpocapsa pomonella, moth, beetle, cutworm, apple root plant louse, Eriosoma pyri, grape wood borer, Orthosoma cylindricum, grape cane gall curculio, Madarus vitis, grapevine fidia, Fidia viticida, grape cooling, Penthina vitinorana, eight spotted forester, Alypia octomaculata, grapevine plume, Prerophorus periscelidoctylus, tree cricket, Ecanthus nivens, raspberry geometer, Aptodes rubivora, gooseberry fruit worm, Pempelia grassulariae, strawberry leaf roller, Anchylopera fragariae, white marked tussock moth, Orgyia leucostigma, basket worm, drop worm, Aitanthus worm, walnut tortrix, Rileyana, seed corn maggot, white garp, American meromyza, Meromyza americana, sheep botfly, head maggot, Estrus ovis, rear horse, camel cricket, devil’s riding horse, Mantis carolina, Solidago gall moth, Gelechia galloesolidaginis, chickweed geometer, Haematopis grataria, thristle plume, Pterophorus carduidactylus, 1869

Series — Box: 6, Folder: 244a

Identifier: VIII

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Charles Valentine Riley Collection includes correspondence, unpublished lectures, photographs, news clippings, drawings, reprints, books, and artifacts covering the time period from 1868 to 1919. Much of the correspondence is original; however, several letters are copies of items held by other institutions. Copies are noted as such in the container list.

The nine series of materials focus on the history of entomology and the development of biological control of insects injurious to crops. In addition to professional papers and documents, the collection includes many personal articles such as family photographs, a wedding announcement, Riley's desk, clock, microscope, books, medals, and drawings, a portrait painted by Henry Ulke, known as the painter of the Presidents, and clippings about Riley's untimely death. Riley's talent and experience as a natural history illustrator is a focus of the collection as well.