Riley, Charles Valentine. Sixth Annual Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and Other Insects of the State of Missouri. Subject: codling moth, Colorado potato beetle, cotton worm, canker worm, Grape Phylloxera, blue caterpillars, redlegged ham beetle, clover hayworm, legged maple borer, raspberry root borer, northern brethian, jumping sumach beetle, Tiphia grub, white grub, Yucca moth, Dominican cane borer, huckberry butterfly, katydid, paris green, Anomys xylena, Phylloxera vastatrix, Eridryas grata, Aylysia octomaculata, Corynete rufipes, Asopia costalis, Aegeria acerni, Lepidoptera, Blepharida rhois, Tiphia inornata, Coscinoptera dominicana, Pronuba yuccasella, Apatura, Orthoptera: Microcentrus retinernis, Phaneroptera curvicauda, 1874

Series — Box: 7, Folder: 261

Identifier: VIII

Staff Only

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The Charles Valentine Riley Collection includes correspondence, unpublished lectures, photographs, news clippings, drawings, reprints, books, and artifacts covering the time period from 1868 to 1919.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.