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Charles Valentine Riley Collection
Scope and Contents
The Charles Valentine Riley Collection includes correspondence, unpublished lectures, photographs, news clippings, drawings, reprints, books, and artifacts covering the time period from 1868 to 1919.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.
Dates
- Creation: 1858-1919
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Biographical Sketch
"Professor Riley," as he was generally known, was born in Chelsea, London, England, on September 19, 1843. He attended boarding school at Dieppe, France and Bonn, Germany. Passionately fond of natural history, drawing, and painting, he collected and studied insects and sketched them in pencil and in color. At both Dieppe and Bonn, he won prizes in drawing and was encouraged to pursue art as a career.
At the age of 17, he came to the United States and settled on an Illinois farm about 50 miles from Chicago. Soon his attention was drawn to insect injuries of crops, and he sent accounts of his observations to the Prairie Farmer. At the age of 21, Riley moved to Chicago and worked for this leading agricultural journal as a reporter, artist, and editor of its entomological department. His writings attracted the attention of Benjamin D. Walsh, the Illinois State entomologist. It was through Walsh's influence as well as the recommendation of N .J. Coleman of Coleman's Rural World that Riley was appointed in the spring of 1868 to the newly created office of entomologist of the State of Missouri. From 1868 to 1877, in collaboration with T.W. Harris, B.D. Walsh, and Asa Fitch, Riley published nine annual reports as State Entomologist of Missouri, which unequivocally established his reputation as an eminent entomologist. Today, authorities agree that these nine reports constitute the foundation of modern entomology.
From 1873 to 1877, many Western States and territories were invaded by grasshoppers from the Northwest. In some states their destruction of crops was so serious that it caused starvation among pioneer families. Riley studied this plague and published results in his last three Missouri annual reports and worked to bring it to the attention of Congress. In March 1877, he succeeded in securing passage of a bill creating the United States Entomological Commission, the Grasshopper Commission administered under the Director of the Geological Survey of the U.S. Department of the Interior. Riley was appointed chairman, A.S. Packard, Jr., secretary, and Cyrus Thomas, treasurer.
All this time, Riley, with the help of Otto Lugger, Theodore Pergrande, and others, was also making brilliant contributions to the knowledge of the biology of insects. Besides studying the life cycles of the 13 and 17 year cicadas, he also studied the remarkable Yucca moth and its pollination of the Yucca flower, a matter of special evolutionary interest to Charles Darwin. In addition, he conducted intensive life history studies of blister beetles and their unusual triungulin larvae, and the caprification of the fig.
In the spring of 1878, Townend Glover retired as entomologist to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Riley was appointed his successor. After a year in this position, Riley resigned owing to a disagreement with the Commissioner of Agriculture over Riley's practice of making independent political contacts; he then continued the work of the U.S. Entomological Commission with others, from his home. Two years later, after the inauguration of President James A. Garfield in 1881, Riley was reappointed and remained chief of the Federal Entomological Service until June 1894, when the Service was renamed the Division of Entomology of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In 1882, Riley gave part of his insect collection to the U.S. National Museum, now The Smithsonian Institution, at which time he was made honorary curator of insects. In 1885, he was appointed assistant curator of the Museum, thus becoming the Museum's first curator of insects, whereupon he gave the Museum his entire insect collection consisting of 115,000 mounted specimens (representing 20,000 species), 2,800 vials, and 3,000 slides of specimens mounted in Canadian balsam.
One of Riley's greatest triumphs while Chief of the Federal Entomological Service was his initiation of efforts to collect parasites and predators of the cottony cushion scale, which was destroying the citrus industry in California. In 1888, he sent Albert Koebele to Australia to collect natural enemies of the scale. A beetle, Vedalia cardinalis, now Rodolia cardinalis, was introduced into California and significantly reduced populations of the cottony cushion scale. This effort gave great impetus to the study of biological control for the reduction of injurious pests and established Charles Valentine Riley as the "Father of the Biological Control." For a review of the cottony cushion scale project, see Doutt, 1958.
A prolific writer and artist, Riley authored over 2,400 publications. He also published two journals, the American Entomologist (1868-80) and Insect Life (1889-94). Riley received many honors during his lifetime. He was decorated by the French Government for his work on the grapevine Phylloxera. He received honorary degrees from Kansas State University and the University of Missouri. He was an honorary member of the Entomological Society of London and founder and first president of the Entomological Society of Washington. He and Dr. L.O. Howard, Riley's assistant in the Federal Entomological Service, were among the founders of the American Association of Economic Entomologists, which became part of Entomological Society of America in 1953.
Tragically, on September 14, 1895 Riley's life was cut short by a fatal bicycle accident. As he was riding rapidly down a hill, the bicycle wheel struck a granite paving block dropped by a wagon. He catapulted to the pavement and fractured his skull. He was carried home on a wagon and never regained consciousness. He died at his home the same day at the age of 52, leaving his wife with six children.
Total Size of Collection
1 records_box
11 letter_document_box
2 half_letter_document_box
1 half_legal_document_box
4 boxes (1 box, 17 x 14 x 14.5; 1 box, 25 x 21 x 3; 1 box, 15 x 12 x 3; 1 box, 22 x 15 x 2)
12.75 Linear Feet (18 boxes (Total number of boxes from Access record does not agree with box subtotals))
Language of Materials
English
Content Description
Charles Valentine Riley pioneered the field of entomology in the United States. The impact of Riley's work of more than a century ago is still being felt today, not only in the fields of entomology and agriculture, but also in other natural sciences. The Charles Valentine Riley Collection, part of the National Agricultural Library's (NAL) Special Collections, illustrates Riley's vision to enhance the success of agriculture through new scientific knowledge. The collection of papers and significant artifacts, also tells the story of Riley's love of nature, his keen ability to observe relationships in nature, and his devotion to recording his observations through drawing and writing.
The Charles Valentine Riley Collection consists of letters to Riley, unpublished lectures, notes, photographs, news clippings, reports, reprints, paintings, drawings, sketch books, books, and artifacts. The collection focuses on the history of entomology and the development of biological control of insects injurious to crops, and on Riley's energetic efforts on its behalf during the latter part of the 19th century.
The collection complements a number of other significant manuscripts and rare books in Special Collections such as the USDA History Collection, manuscripts of Townend Glover and William Saunders, and early publications by Riley and others which provide historians and researchers a broad picture of the field of entomology in the 1800s.
Manuscript Materials by Charles Valentine Riley
Contact the following institutions for additional information on accessing current Charles Valentine Riley holdings:
The Academy of Natural Sciences
Philadelphia, PA
American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia, PA
Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA
Boston Society of Natural History
Boston, MA
British Museum of Natural History
London, England
California Academy of Sciences
San Francisco, CA
Cornell University Libraries, Rare & Manuscript Collections
Ithaca, NY
The Entomological Society of America
Lanham, MD
The Field Museum
Chicago, IL
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Cambridge, MA
National Archives and Records Administration
College Park, MD
National Archives of Canada
Ottawa, Canada
Smithsonian Institution Libraries, National Museum of Natural History Branch
Washington, D.C.
Custodial History
The Charles Valentine Riley Collection was received by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) as four separate gifts. The initial collection came from the home of Riley's last surviving child, Cathryn Vedalia Riley, and was donated to NAL in 1978 by the Cathryn Vedalia Riley Trust, Victor John Yannacone, Jr., Trustee. In 1984 Riley's granddaughter, Mrs. Emilie Brash, donated a medal of honor Riley received from the French government for his work on grape disease. In 1985 she presented an 1891 oil portrait of Riley painted by Henry Ulke to Secretary of Agriculture John Block, who transferred the painting to NAL. In 2002, Mrs. Brash donated a bound book of original sketches and watercolors created by Riley in Germany and France between 1856-1859, representing some of his earliest work.
Biographical References on Charles Valentine Riley
- Chippendale, M. "Centennial Symposium. Recognizing the Legacy of C. V. Riley: Introduction." American Entomologist (Lanham, Md.) 42 (1996): 206-208.
- Colman, Norman Jay, 1827-1901. "Prof. C. V. Riley, U. S. Entomologist." Colman's Rural World (St. Louis, Mo.) 12 May (1892): 1-8.
- Crossette, G. "Founders of the Cosmos Club of Washington. (1966). A Collection of Biographical Sketches and Likenesses of the Sixty Founders." (1978). Cosmos Club, Washington, D.C.
- Doutt, R. L. "Vice, Virtue and the Vedalia." Bulletin of the Entomological Society of America. [Washington, D. C.] 4 (1958): 119-123. NAL Call Number: 423.9 En8
- Fream, William, 1854-1906. "Charles Valentine Riley (obituary notice)." Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England (3rd ser.). [London, England]. 6 (1895), 4: 8-10.
- Goode, George Brown, 1851-1896. "A Memorial Appreciation of Charles Valentine Riley." Science. Moses King. Cambridge, Mass. N. S. 3 (1896), 59: 217-225.
- Herrett, R. A. "A Tribute to ESA Pioneers: Tribute to Charles Valentine Riley." pp. 105-108. In J. J. Menn & A. L. Steinhauer [eds.], Progress and Perspectives for the 21st Century. 1991. Entomological Society of America, Lanham, MD.
- Ho, Judith J. & Willie Yuille. "The Papers of Charles Valentine Riley. A Register of his Papers in the National Agricultural Library." Bibliographies and Literature of Agriculture, No. 92. National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD. 124 p.
- Howard, Leland Ossian, 1857-1950. "A Distinguished Entomologist. A Sketch of Professor Riley." The Farmers Magazine. London, England. [I., 23, F.] [Jan. & Feb. pp. 221-222, 228-229, 237-241.] 1890.
- Howard, Leland Ossian, E. A. Schwarz & H. G. Hubbard. "Charles V. Riley, Ph. D." Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. [Washington, D.C.] 3 (5, 1895): 293-298.
- Knutson, Lloyd V. "A Tribute to Charles Valentine Riley: American Entomologist." pp. 97-104. In J. J. Menn & A. L. Steinhauer, eds., Progress and Perspectives for the 21st century. 1991. Entomological Society of America. Lanham, MD.
- Kritsky, G. "Darwin, Walsh, and Riley: the Entomological Link." American Entomologist. (Lanham, Md.) Entomological Society of America. 41 (1995): 89-95.
- Mallis, Arnold. "American Entomologists." Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, NJ. [c1971]. 549 p., illus.
- Meiners, E. P. "Charles Valentine Riley. Information Sheet." Published by the C. V. Riley Entomological Society, University of Missouri. Columbia, MO.
- Packard, Alpheus Spring, 1839-1905. "Charles Valentine Riley." Science. Cambridge, Mass. Moses King. New Series. 2 (July-Dec. 1895): 745-751.
- Skinner, Henry, 1861-1926. " Prof. C. V. Riley, M. A., Ph. D." Entomological News. American Entomological Society. Philadelphia, PA. 6 (v. VI, No. 8, Oct. 1895): 241-243.
- Smith, Edward H. and Carol Anelli Sheppard. "A Heritage of Distinguished Journalism: a Look at the ESA paper trail." American Entomologist. Entomological Society of America. Lanham, Md. 6 (1, Spring, 1990): 6-17.
- Smith, Edward H. and Janet R. Smith. "Charles Valentine Riley: The Making of the man and his achievements." American Entomologist. Entomological Society of America. Lanham, Md. 42 (4, 1996): 228-233.
- Summers, F. G. "Charles V. Riley, Benefactor of Agriculture." Missouri Historical Review. 19 (1925): 611-621.
- Sorensen, W. Conner and Edward H. Smith. "Charles Valentine Riley: Art Training at Bonn, 1858-1860. American Entomologist. Entomological Society of America. Lanham, Md. 43 (2, 1997): 92-104.
Genres
agricultural art and memorabilia, photographs
Selected Publications in NAL by Charles Valentine Riley
The following are catalog entries from The Dictionary Catalog of the National Agricultural Library. Additional entries may be found by searching AGRICOLA, the online catalog.
Riley, Charles Valentine. Additional notes on Veguthymus yuccae. First published in Transactions of the Academy of St. Louis, III, no.4 (1878):566-568. With his "On the larval characters and habits of the blister beetles."
Riley, Charles Valentine. "Additional notes on the army worm (Leucania unipuncta)." Salem, 1881. Abstract in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. XXIX, Boston meeting, Aug. 1880.
Riley, Charles Valentine. Address on the cotton worm; before the cotton convention at Atlanta, Nov. 2, 1881, with discussion. Washington, 1881. First published in U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture, Report No. 17, 18-35. The greater part of the address is also published in Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1881 and 1882, pp. 153-157.
NAL Call No. 423 R45N
Riley, Charles Valentine. Agricultural advancement in the United States. Journal of the American Agricultural Association, 1878:8.
NAL Call No. 30.4 R45
Riley, Charles Valentine. "Annual address... as president of the Entomological Society of Washington for the year 1884." Washington: Gibson Bros., printers and bookbinders, 1886. First published in Wash. Ent. Soc. Proc 1 (1885):17-27.
NAL Call No. 422 R or 420 W27 V.1
Riley, Charles Valentine. Annual report on the noxious, beneficial, and other insects of the State of the Missouri, 1-9 (1868-76). General index and supplement to the nine reports on the insects of Missouri, by Charles V. Riley. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1881. 177 p. (U.S. Entomological Commission. Bulletin No. 6)
NAL Call No. 423 P45A Index or 1 En8B
Riley, Charles Valentine. Bemerkungen uber Pronuba yuccasella und uber die Befruchtung der Yucca-arten... n. p., 1876. 377-382 p. 22 cm Translation of an article published in Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, 1876.
NAL Call No. 430 R45B
Riley, Charles Valentine. "Biological notes on the army worm (Leucania unipuncta Haw.)." First published in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 25th meeting, 1876 (Salem, 1877), 279-283.
NAL Call No. 422 R45B
Riley, Charles Valentine. Review of Alternating generations: A biological study of oak galls and gall flies, by H. Adlar, M.D. Translated and edited by C.R. Straton. Science 17 (Apr. 1895).
NAL Call No. 422 R
Riley, Charles Valentine. Cabbage insects.U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Report, 1884, 1884:285-334.
NAL Call No. 1 Ag84 1884
Riley, Charles Valentine. The cabbage Plutella. Scientific American supplement 428 (1884): 6837-6838.
NAL Call No. 430 R45P1
Riley, Charles Valentine. Cabbage worms. U.S. Dept of Agriculture. Report, 1883 1883:107-138.
NAL Call No. 1 Ag84
Riley, Charles Valentine. Canker worms: being an account of the two species injurious to fruit and shade trees, with practical suggestions. Third report of the United States Entomological Commission, 1883:157-197.
NAL Call No. 430 R45Ca
Riley, Charles Valentine. Capitalizing specific names. Papilio 3 (Sept.-Dec. 1883):164.
NAL Call No. 411 R
Riley, Charles Valentine. The chinch bug. American Agriculturalist, Nov. 1881:476.
NAL Call No. 431 R45c or 6 Am3 v.40
Riley, Charles Valentine. The Colorado beetle. With suggestions for its repression and methods of destruction. London: G. Routledge and sons, 1877. Vol. 1:7-123.
NAL Call No. 427 R45C
Riley, Charles Valentine. Controlling sex in butterflies. The American Naturalist, VII (September 1873). 9 p.
NAL Call No. 422 R45C
Riley, Charles Valentine. The cotton worm. The question of hibernation settled. The Western Farmer's Almanac, 1883:40.
NAL Call No. 430 R45ch
Riley, Charles Valentine. The cotton worm. Summary of its natural history, with an account of its enemies, and the best means of controlling it; being a report of progress of the work of the commission. Dept. of the Interior. United States Entomological Commission Bulletin no.3. Washington: Govt. Print. Off, 1880.
NAL Call No. 1 En8B no.3
Riley, Charles Valentine. "The cotton worm in the United States." Philadelphia, 1880:3. Abstract in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. XXVVIII, Saratoga meeting, Aug. 1879.
NAL Call No. 430 R45C or 42.2 R45
Riley, Charles Valentine. Descriptions of some new Tortricidae (leaf-rollers). Transactions of the St. Louis Academy of Science IV, no.2 (1881):9.
NAL Call No. 430 R45D
Riley, Charles Valentine. Destructive locusts. A popular consideration of a few of the more injurious locusts (or "grasshoppers") of the United States together with the best means of destroying them. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Division of Entomology. Bulletin No. 25. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1891.
NAL Call No. 1 82B no.25
Riley, Charles Valentine. Directions for collecting and preserving insects. 4 + 146 no.39 p. 139. U.S. National Museum. Bulletin, No. 39, Pt. F. Wash. 1892, "Entomological R45D works," pp. 131-145.
NAL Call No. 500 5m65B no.39 or 422 R45D
Riley, Charles Valentine. Einige unserer schadlicheren Insekten. pp. 35, 8. St. Louis, 1872.
NAL Call No. 423 R45E
Riley, Charles Valentine. Entomological papers. Salem, 1879. First published in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, St. Louis meeting, Aug. 1878.
NAL Call No. 422 R45E
Riley, Charles Valentine. Entomological papers; a collection. n. p., 189-? 1 vol. (various pagings).
NAL Call No. 422 R45Ec
Riley, Charles Valentine. Entomology. Ware's Valley Monthly, August 1876:281-289.
NAL Call No. 422 R45En
Riley, Charles Valentine. Entomology in Missouri The American Naturalist, VIII (Mar. and Apr. 1874).
NAL Call No. R45Et
Riley, Charles Valentine. Experiments with insecticides. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology. Bulletin 11, 1885:5-7.
NAL Call No. 1 En82B no.11
Riley, Charles Valentine. U.S. Entomological Commission. First annual report...for the year 1877 relating to the Rocky Mountain locust and the best methods of preventing its injuries and of guarding against its invasions... Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1878. vol. 1, 295 p. front illus. v. pl. fold. maps. 24 cm. At head of title: Department of the Interior. U.S. Geological Survey. Commissioners: C.V. Riley, A.S. Packard, Jr., Cyrus Thomas. "Notes on the nature of the food of the birds of Nebraska. "By Prof. Samuel Aughey," App. II, pp. 13-62. Bibliography: App. XXVII, pp. 273-279.
NAL Call No. 1 En8 v.1 or 423 Un3 v.1
Riley, Charles Valentine. U.S. Entomological Commission. Fourth report...being a revised edition of Bulletin No. 3, and a final report on the cotton worm, together with a chapter on the boll worm. By Charles V. Riley... Washington, Govt. Print. Off. 1885. XXXVIII, 399. 147 p. illus. IXIV pl. (part col.) fold., maps. 23 cm. At head of title: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Also issued as House Misc. Doc. 39, 48th Cong. 2d Sess. Serial No. 2325, "History of the literature and bibliography" pp. 322-344. Bibliography of the boll worm; pp. 382-384. Appendix I - VI, papers by H.G. Hubbard, R.W. Jones, J.P. Steele, E.H. Anderson, J.C. Branner, W.J. Jones.
NAL Call No. 1 En8 v.4
Riley, Charles Valentine. "Further notes on the pollination of Yucca and on Pronuba and Prodoxus." Salem: Salem Press, 1881. First published in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. XXIX, Boston meeting, Aug. 1880.
NAL Call No. 430 R45F
Riley, Charles Valentine. "Further notes on Yucca insects and Yucca pollination." Washington, 1893. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, VIII.
NAL Call No. 430 R45Fu
Riley, Charles Valentine. Habits of Fuller's rose beetle. Philadelphia, 1879:310-311. First published in Gardener's Monthly and Horticulturist, 21 (Oct. 1870).
NAL Call No. 427 R45II
Riley, Charles Valentine. Hackberry butterflies. Descriptions of the early stages of Apatura lycaon, Fabr., and Apatura herse, Fabr.; with remarks on their synonymy. St. Louis, 1873. Transactions of the St. Louis Academy of Science, III:193-208.
NAL Call No. 430 R45H
Howard, L.O. The hymeopterous parasites of the North American butterflies... Including a section upon the microgasters, 1889. First published in Scudder's Butterflies of the Eastern United State and Canada.
NAL Call No. 425 H83H
Riley, Charles Valentine. The Icerya or fluted scale, otherwise known as the cottony cushion scale. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1887. 40 p. 23 cm. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Entomology. Bulletin No. 15). CONTENTS-The scale-insects of the orange in California, and particularly the Icerya or fluted scale... by C.V. Riley-Notes on Icerya-its probable origin the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius. By C.V. Riley-The use of gases against scale insects. By F.W. Morse.
NAL Call No. 1 En82B
Riley, Charles Valentine. The imported elm leaf-beetle. Its habits and natural history, and means of counteracting its injuries. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Division of Entomology, Bulletin No.6 Washington: Govt. Print Off., 1885. First published in Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for 1883.
NAL Call No. 1 En82B
Riley, Charles Valentine. The imported elm leaf-beetle. Its habits and natural history, and means of counteracting its injuries. U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture. Division of Entomology Bulletin No. 6 (2d ed). Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1891. 21 p.
NAL Call No. 1 En82B
Riley, Charles Valentine, and others. Injurious insects. Bound vol. of pamphlets, contents:
1. Riley, C.V. Insects affecting the hackberry.
2. Scudder, S.H. Pine moth of Nantucket.
3. Hopkins, A.D. Insects destructive of black spruce.
4. Riley, C.V. Our shade trees and their insect defoliators.
5. Packard, A.S. Insects injurious to forest and shade trees.
NAL Call No. 423 R45I
Riley, Charles Valentine, ed. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology...Insect Life...Devoted to the economy and life habits of insects especially in their relations to Agriculture... vols. I-VII: July 1883-July 1895. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1888-95. 7 vols illus. 23 cm. At head of title: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology. No more published. Vols. I-IV, monthly; vols. V-VII, irregular, 5 Nos. a year. Editors: vol. 1, the Entomologist (C.V. Riley) and his assistants: vol. II-VI, C.V. Riley and L.O. Howard: vol. VII, L.O. Howard. General index to the seven volumes of Insect Life. 1888-95. Washington. Govt. Print. Off., 1897. 145 p. 23 cm.
NAL Call No. 1 En821
Riley, Charles Valentine. 1871. Insectes nuisibles a la vigne (le puceron de la vigne-Phylloxera vitifoliae Fitch.)...(Traduction de M.J. Lichtenstein.). From Bulletin de la Societe centrale d'agriculture et des comices agricoles du department de l'Herault. Montpelier, pp. 341-351, 22 1/2 cm. . 57. annee.- Octobre, Novembre et Decembre 1870.
NAL Call No. 431.5 R45I
Riley, Charles Valentine. Insecticides and means of applying them to shade and forest trees. Fifth Report of the U.S. Entomological Commission, 1880:1, 31-47.
NAL Call No. 423 R45
Riley, Charles Valentine. 1890. The insectivorous habits of the English sparrow. Washington: Government Printing Office:1, 111-133. First published in Bulletin No. 1, Division of Economic Ornithology and Mammalogy, United States Department of Agriculture, entitled "The English Sparrow in America."
NAL Call No. 423 R45Is
Riley, Charles Valentine. International polar expedition. Report... 1885. CONTENTS- pt. I. Orders and instructions-pt. II. Narrative, by Lieut P.H. Ray-pt. III. Ethnographic sketches of the natives of Point Barrow, by Lieut. P.H. Ray: 1. Sketch. 2. Approximate census of Eskimos at the Cape Smythe Village. 3. Vocabulary collected among the Eskimos of Point Barrow and Cape Smythe. 4. Catalogue of ethnological specimens collected by the Point Barrow Expedition, prepared by John Murdoch-pt. IV. Natural history, by John Murdoch: 1. Mammals. 2. Birds. 3. Fishes. 4. Insects by C.V. Riley. 5. Marine invertebrates. (Exclusive of mollusks). 6. Report on the mollusks, by W.H. Dall. &. Collecting localities and dredging stations. 8. Plants, by Prof. Asa Gray. Appendix-pt. V. Meteorology (including Aurora)-pt. VI. Terrestrial magnetism by C.A. Schott, U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey-pt. VII. Tides-pt. VIII. Miscellaneous observations.
NAL Call No. 407 In8
Riley, Charles Valentine. Insects injurious to the grapevine. The grape Phylloxera - Phylloxera vastatrix Planchon. Jefferson City, 1873:30-87. First published in Sixth annual report on the noxious beneficial and other insects of the State of Missouri.
NAL Call No. 431.5 R45
Riley, Charles Valentine. Insects injurious to the blackberry. U.S. Entomological Commission. Report 5: 601-622.
NAL Call No. 1 En8 no.5
Riley, Charles Valentine. Jumping seeds and galls. U.S. National Museum. Proceedings. Washington. 1883. vol. 5. 1882. pp. 632-635. Issued May 22, 1883.
NAL Call No. 500 Sm65P v.5
Riley, Charles Valentine. The kerosene emulsion: its origin, nature, and increasing usefulness... Syracuse, 1892. (83)-98 p. Proceedings of the Washington Meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Agricultural Science, held at Washington, August 17, 1891.
NAL Call No. 423 P14K
Riley, Charles Valentine. Larval stages and habits of the beefly Hirmoneura. Cambridge, Mass., 1883. 2 p. First published in Science, 1:332-334.
NAL Call No. 428 R45
List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America, by John B. Smith... assisted by Henry Skinner, M.D. Geo. D. Hulst, Ph.D., C.H. Fernald, Ph.D. C.V. Riley, Ph.D. Philadelphia: American Entomological Society, 1891.
NAL Call No. 430 Sm6L
Riley, Charles Valentine. List of the Tineina of Boreal America. List of the Lepidoptera of Boreal America by John B. Smith. Philadelphia 1891. pp. 94-114.
NAL Call No. 430 R45
Riley, Charles Valentine. Little-known facts about well-known animals. 1882. 32 p. At head of title: Saturday lecture No. 5.
NAL Call No. 411 R
Riley, Charles Valentine. Locust flights east of the Mississippi. First published in Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 5 (1877):62-64.
NAL Call No. 429 R45
Riley, Charles Valentine. The locust plague; How to avert it. Salem, 1876:215-222. First published in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Detroit meeting, Aug. 1875.
NAL Call No. 429 R45Lo
Riley, Charles Valentine. The locust plague in the United States: being more particularly a treatise on the Rocky Mountain locust or so-called grasshopper, as it occurs east of the Rocky Mountains, with practical recommendations for its destruction. Chicago: Rand, McNally & Co., 1877. 236 p.
NAL Call No. 429 R45Loc
Riley, Charles Valentine. Locusts as food for man. Salem, 1876:200-214. First published in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Detroit meeting, Aug. 1875.
NAL Call No. 429 R45L
Riley, Charles Valentine. Longevity in insects. Washington, D.C., 1895. First published in Proc. Ent. Soc. Washington vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 108-125, 1895. Annual address of the president.
NAL Call No. 422 R45
Riley, Charles Valentine. The mulberry silkworm; being a manual of instructions in silk culture. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Division of Entomology. Bulletin No.9, 6th ed., VII (1886). 65p. First five editions were published as Special report No. 11 of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, under the title: The silkworm.
NAL Call No. 1 En82B
Riley, Charles Valentine. The mulberry silkworm; being a manual of instructions in silk culture. 7th rev. ed. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1888. VII, 65 p. illus., II col. pl. 23 cm. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Division of Entomology. Bulletin No.9 ) First five editions were published as Special report no.11 of the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, under the title: The silkworm .
NAL Call No. 1 En82B
Riley, Charles Valentine. Natural History of the cotton worm. Special bulletin. Department of Agriculture. Columbia, 1885.
NAL Call No. 430 R45
Riley, Charles Valentine. A new herbarium pest. The Botanical Gazette, December 1891, 334-337.
NAL Call No. 430 R45N
Riley, Charles Valentine. New insects injurious to agriculture:3-4. Abstract in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. 30, Cincinnati meeting, Aug. 1881. With his: Retarded development in insects.
NAL Call No. 2 R45Re
Riley, Charles Valentine. A new oak-gall on acorn cups. Transactions of the St. Louis Academy of Science, III (Dec. 1877):577-578.
NAL Call No. 425 R45N, 500 Sa2T
Riley, Charles Valentine. Notes on Icerya-its probable origin the islands of Bourbon and Mauritius. First published in U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Division of Entomology. Bulletin No. 15, 1887:27-33.
NAL Call No. 1 En82B no.15
Riley, Charles Valentine. Notes on joint worms...(Rochester) 1845. 1 p. First published in Rural New Yorker, June 20, 1885, 6 vol. 44, p. 418 v.44
NAL Call No. 426 R45No, R.88 v.44
Riley, Charles Valentine. Notes on North American microgasters, with descriptions of new species. First published in Acad. Sci. St. Louis, Trans., 4, no.2 (1881). 20p.
NAL Call No. 425 R45No, 500 Sa2T v.4
Riley, Charles Valentine and J. Monell. Notes on the Aphididae of the United States, with descriptions of species occurring west of the Mississippi. Washington, 1879. 32 p. 21. Author's edition. At head of title: Department of Interior. United States Geological and Geographical Survey... Extracted from the Bulletin of the Survey, vol. V, No. 1. Contents: Pt. I, Biological notes on the Pemphigmae, with descriptions of new species-C.V. Riley-Pt. II, Notes on Aphididae, with descriptions of new species-J. Monell.
NAL Call No. 431 R45N
Riley, Charles Valentine. Notes on the natural history of the grape phylloxera (Phylloxera vastatrix, Planchon). St. Louis, 1878:281-287. First published in Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, III (1868-77).
NAL Call No. 431.5 R45N
Riley, Charles Valentine. Notes on the Yucca borer (Megathymus yuccae). First published in Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, III (Jan. 1876).
NAL Call No. 430 R45No 1876
Riley, Charles Valentine. On a new genus in the lepidopterous family Tineidae, with remarks on the fertilization of Yucca. St. Louis, 1873:55-64. Transactions of the Academy of Science of St. Louis, III.
NAL Call No. 430 R45O
Riley, Charles Valentine. On an extensile penetrating organ in a gamasid mite. Salem, 1877:273-275. First published in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science 25th meeting, 1876.
NAL Call No. 422 R45B
Riley, Charles Valentine. On Icerya purchasi, an insect injurious to fruit trees. London, 1887. First published in The British Association for the Advancement of Science. Report, 1887:767. also: Nature, vol. 36, p. 592, 1887.
NAL Call No. 427 R, 472 N21
Riley, Charles Valentine. On the causes of variation in organic forms. Address by C.V. Riley...before the section of biology, American Association for the Advancement of Science, at the Cleveland meeting Salem:The Salem Press. Aug. 1888 51 p. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. XXXVII.
NAL Call No. 442 R45, 500 Am34 v.37
Riley, Charles Valentine. On the curious egg mass of Corydalia cornutus (Linn.) and on the eggs that have hitherto been referred to that species. Salem, 1877:275-279. First published in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 25th meeting, 1876.
NAL Call No. 422 R45B
Riley, Charles Valentine. On the insects more particularly associated with Sarracenia vaniclaris (spotted trumpet leaf). Salem, 1874:18-25. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Hartford meeting, Aug. 1874.
NAL Call No. 422 R45O
Riley, Charles Valentine. On the larval characters and habits of the blister-beetles belonging to the genera Macrobasis Lect. and Epicauta Fabr. with remarks on other species of the family Meloidae. St. Louis Academy of Science Transactions, 3 (1878):544-562. With this is On a remarkable new genus in Meloidae... and other articles.
NAL Call No. 427 R, 500 Sa2T v.3
Riley, Charles Valentine. On the luminous larvi-form females in the Phengodini. London, 1887. First published in Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1887. 2p.
NAL Call No. 427 R45O
Riley, Charles Valentine. On the original habitat of Icerya purchasi. San Francisco, 1 p., 40 1/2 cm. Pacific Rural Press, May 12, 1888.
NAL Call No. 431.6 R45 1888
Riley, Charles Valentine. "On the oviposition of Prodoxus decipiens," p.3. Abstract in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 30. Cincinnati meeting, Aug. 1881. With his: Retarded development in insects (abstracts).
NAL Call No. 422 R45Re
Riley, Charles Valentine. 1873. On the oviposition of the Yucca moth. American Naturalist, VII (October).
NAL Call No. 422 R45Ot
Riley, Charles Valentine. "On the parasites of the Hessian fly." U.S. National Museum. Proceedings 8 (October 1885):413-422. Abstract in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 34 (1885):332-334. With his: The Song-notes of the periodical cicada (abstract).
NAL Call No. 500 Sm54P v. 8 1886, R426, 431 R
Riley, Charles Valentine. "On the summer dormancy of the larva of Phyciodes nycteis (Doubleday) with remarks on the natural history of the species." Salem, 1875:108-112 Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Hartford meeting, Aug. 1874.
NAL Call No. 430 R45On
Riley, Charles Valentine. "Our shade trees and their insect defoliators. Being a consideration of the four most injurious species which affect the trees of the capital; with means of destroying them." Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1887. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Division of Entomology. Bulletin No. 10, Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1888. (U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture. Division of Entomology. Bulletin No. 10, 2d. rev. ed.)
NAL Call No. 1 En82B
Riley, Charles Valentine. ...The outlook for economic entomology. New York, 1890. [381]-384 p.
NAL Call No. 423 R450
Riley, Charles Valentine. The Ox bot in the United States. Washington, 1892. 16 p. illus. 23 cm. First published in Insect Life, 4, nos. 9 and 10 (June 1892), by authority of the Secretary of Agriculture. At head of title: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Entomology.
NAL Call No. 428 R45O
Riley, Charles Valentine. Parasitic and predacious insects. Popular Science Monthly, XLX, no.5 (1891):678-685.
NAL Call No. 423 R45Pa
Riley, Charles Valentine. Parasitic and predaceous insects in applied entomology, 1893. First published in Insect Life, 6, no. 2 (1893), 130-141. Read at 5th Ann. Meeting of the Assoc. Economic Entomologists, Madison, Wisc., Aug. 15, 1893.
NAL Call No. 423 R45Pa 1893
Riley, Charles Valentine, 1843-95. Parasitism in insects. Annual Address of the President (Washington Entomological Society). 35 p. First published in Proceedings of the Entomological Society, 2, no. 4 (1893).
NAL Call No. 422 R
Riley, Charles Valentine. The periodical cicada. An account of Cicada septendecim and its tredicim race, with a chronology of all broods known. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1885. 46 p. (U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture. Division of Entomology. Bulletin No. 8) Published June 17, 1885.
NAL Call No. 1 En82B no.8
Riley, Charles Valentine. The periodical cicada. An account of Cicada septendecim and its tredicim race, with a chronology of all broods known. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1885. 46 p. (U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture. Division of Entomology. Bulletin No. 8, 2d ed.) Published July 13, 1885.
NAL Call No. 1 En82B no.8
Riley, Charles Valentine. "Philosophy of the pupation of butterflies and particularly of the Nymphalida." Salem: Salem Press, 1880, 9 p. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. XXVIII, Saratoga meeting, Aug. 1870.
NAL Call No. 430 R45Pp
Riley, Charles Valentine. Poisonous insects. New York: W. Wood & Company, 1887:741-760. First published in Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences, V, 1887.
NAL Call No. 422 R45P
Riley, Charles Valentine. Potato pests. Being an illustrated account of the Colorado potato-beetle and the other insect foes of the potato in North America. With suggestions for their repression and methods for their destruction. New York: Orange Judd Company, 1876. 108 p.
NAL Call No. 423 R45P
Riley, Charles Valentine. Premature appearance of the periodical Cicada. Scientific American supplement, XX, no.502, 1885.
NAL Call No. 431 R45Pr
Riley, Charles Valentine. Problem of the hop-plant louse (Phorodon humull, Schrank) in Europe and America. Report of the British Association, 1887. 3 p.
NAL Call No. 431 R45P
Riley, Charles Valentine. Prof. Riley's report to the governor of Kansas - The grasshopper question-Interesting information. Topeka, 1877. First published in Weekly Commonwealth, May 12, 1877.
NAL Call No. 431 R45
Riley, Charles Valentine. Pyrethrum, an important insecticide. n. p. 1883, pp. 41-42.
NAL Call No. 423 R45PY
Riley, Charles Valentine. Pyrethrum: its use as an insecticide. U.S. Dept. Of Agriculture. Report, 1881-82:76-87.
NAL Call No. 1 Ag84
Riley, Charles Valentine. Recent advances in economic entomology, Washington, 1884. First published in Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, 5 (1886):10-12.
NAL Call No. 423 R45Re
Riley, Charles Valentine. Remarks on canker-worms and description of a new genus of Phalanida. Academy of Science of St. Louis. Transactions, 3 (St. Louis, 1878:273-280.)
NAL Call No. 430 R45Rc
Riley, Charles Valentine. Remarks on the bag-worm - Thyridoptery ephemeraeformis Washington, 1884:80-83. First published in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, II (1882-84). Extras printed Apr. 10, 1884.
NAL Call No. 430 R45R
Riley, Charles Valentine. Remarks on the insect defoliators of our shade trees. Made by Dr. C.V. Riley...before the New York farmers, at a meeting held Mar. 10, 1887, and reported by James W. Tooley, New York, Globe Stationery & Printing Co., 1887, cover-title, 12 p., 27 1/2 cm.
NAL Call No. 423 R45R
Riley, Charles Valentine. The Death Valley expedition... 1893. (Card 2) CONTENTS-1. Report on birds, by A.K. Fisher-2. Report on reptiles and batrachans, by Leonard Steineger-3. Report on fishes by Charles H. Gilbert-4. Report on insects by C.V. Riley-5. Report on mollusks, by R.E.C. Stearns-6. Report on desert trees and shrubs, by C. Hart Merriam-7. Report on desert cactuses by C. Hart Merriam-8. List of localities by T.S. Palmer.
NAL Call No. 1 B52N
Riley, Charles Valentine. Report on the Department of Insects in the U.S. National Museum. Washington, 1891:377-380. First published in Report of the National Museum, 1888-89:377-380.
NAL Call No. 422 R45R
Riley, Charles Valentine, William H. Ashmead and L.O. Howard. Report upon the parasitic Hymenoptera of the Island of St. Vincent. London, 1894:54-56. First published in Linnean Society's Journal-Zoology, XXV.
NAL Call No. 426 R45
Riley, Charles Valentine. Retarded development in insects; on the oviposition of Prodoxus decipiens, new insects injurious to agriculture. Salem, 1882, 4 p. First published in Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. XXX, Cincinnati meeting, Aug. 1881, pp. 270-273.
NAL Call No. 422 R34Re
Riley, Charles Valentine. The Rocky Mountain locust. Permanent courses for the government to adopt to lessen or avert locust injury. Washington, 1880:1, 271-322. First published in Second Report of the United States Entomological Commission.
NAL Call No. 429 R45Rp
Riley, Charles Valentine. The Rocky Mountain locust in Kansas, in 1877. Topeka, 1877:21-42. First published in Monthly Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture for August, September, and October 1877. Circular 21. Report for Prof. Riley's assistants in Kansas and synopsis of his remarks before the National Agricultural Congress at Chicago in Sept. 1876.
NAL Call No. 429 R45R
Riley, Charles Valentine. Le Conte, J.L. Rules (for entomological nomenclature) to be submitted to the entomological club of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (ordered printed by resolution at the Annual meeting for 1876). 5 p. Report signed by J.L. Le Conte, Wm. Saunders, and C.V. Riley.
NAL Call No. 422 L49Ry
Riley, Charles Valentine. The scale-insects of the orange in California, and particularly the Icerya or fluted scale, alias white scale, alias cottony cushion scale, etc. (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Entomology. Bulletin no.15, pp. 5-27, 23 cm., Washington, 1887). Address... before the California State Board of Horticulture... Apr. 12, 1887, as reported in the Pacific Rural Press - Apr. 23, 1887, p. 9.
NAL Call No. 1 En82B no.15
Riley, Charles Valentine. Scientific results of the U.S. eclipse expedition to West Africa, 1889-90. Report upon the Insecta, Arachnida, and Myriopoda, by C.V. Riley. (In U.S. National Museum. Proceedings. Washington, 1894, 23 1/2 cm., vol. 15, 1893, also pp. 565-590. pl. IXX). Issued Oct. 23, 1893.
NAL Call No. 500 Sm65P v.16, 422.7 R45S
Riley, Charles Valentine. U.S. Entomological Commission... Second Report... for the years 1878 and 1879; relating to the Rocky Mountain locust, and the western cricket and treating of the best means of subduing the locust in its permanent breeding grounds, with a view of preventing its migrations into the more fertile portions of the trans-Mississippi country, Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1880. XVIII, 322, 80 p. Incl. tables, XVII pl., 9 fold. maps 23 cm. At head of title: Department of the Interior. Appendix II-IV, papers by S.H. Scudder, John Marten, 8 p. Commissioners: C.V. Riley, A.S. Packard, Jr., Cyrus Thomas.
NAL Call No. 1 En8 v.2, 423 Un3 v.2
Riley, Charles Valentine. The silkworm; being a manual of instructions for the no.11 production of silk. 31 p. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Dept. of Social report No. 11, 1879. Passed through five editions bearing this number. The 6th and 7th editions were published as Bulletin No.9, old series, of the Division of Entomology under the title "The mulberry silkworm."
NAL Call No. 1 Ag84Sp
Riley, Charles Valentine. Social insects from psychical and evolutional points of view. Annual address of the President of the Society, delivered in the hall of Columbian University, January 29, 1894. Washington, D.C., 1894. Cover-title, 74 p. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. IX.
NAL Call No. 422 R45Si
Riley, Charles Valentine, 1843-95. Some important discoveries in the life-history of the hop plant-louse (Phorodon humuli Schrank). Geneva, N.Y., 1887:205-207. First published in Agricultural Science, I, no. 9 (September 1887).
NAL Call No. 431 R45S
Riley, Charles Valentine. Some interrelations of plants and insects. Washington, D.C. 1892:81-104. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, VII.
NAL Call No. 422 R45So
Riley, Charles Valentine. Some recent practical results of the cotton worm inquiry by the U.S. Entomological Commission. Salem, 1881:26-33. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, vol. XXIX, Boston meeting, Aug. 1881.
NAL Call No. 430 R45F
Riley, Charles Valentine. Speech of Professor C.V. Riley at the second trustees banquet. St. Louis, 1892:50-53. First published in 3rd Report on the Missouri Botanical Garden. Tribute to Henry Shaw.
NAL Call No. 120 Sh2
Riley, Charles Valentine. Sur l'importation artificial, des parasites et ennemis natureles des insectes nuisibles aux vegetaux. Paris, 1869, 4 p. Extrait du Compte-rendu des Seances du Congres International de Zoologie, Paris 1889, 323-326.
NAL Call No. 423 R45Sp
Riley, Charles Valentine. U.S. Entomological Commission. Third Report... relating to the Rocky Mountain locust, the western cricket, the army worm, canker worms, and the Hessian fly. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1883. XIV, 347, 12, 92 p. LXIV pl. IV. Maps, 23 cm. At head of title: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Commissioners: C.V. Riley, A.S. Packard, Jr. Cyrus Thomas. Appendix II-V, VII-IX, papers by Loew, B. Wagner, F. Cohn, F.P. Koppen, A. Hagen, John Marten, A.J. Chapman, M.A. Howell. Also issued as House Bulletin. Doc. 44, 47th Cong., 2d., Serial no.2154.
NAL Call No. 1 En8 v.3
Riley, Charles Valentine. Ueber dem Weinstock schadlicher Insekten. Die rebenphylloxera. Phylloxera vastatrix Planchon. (Unterordnung Homoptera, familie Aphididae.) Von C.V. Riley. Vom Verfasser autorisierte Uebertragung... Heidelberg, C. Winter's Universitatsbuchhandlung, 1878. 77 p., 2 fold. pl., 23 1/2 cm. Im Suftrage des Dr. Ad. Blankenborn fur die "Annalen der Oenologie" Vebersetzt durch Herrn Dr. Fr. Roder...
NAL Call No. 431.5 R45U
Riley, Charles Valentine. The Vedalia, Importation of Icerya enemies from Australia... by C.V. Riley and others, n.p., pp. 1889-91. First published in Pacific Rural Press, pp. 1889-91.
NAL Call No. 423 V51
Riley, Charles Valentine. Water-beetles destroying carp. Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission for 1885, V (1885):311.
NAL Call No. 157.5 B87
Riley, Charles Valentine. What the Department of Agriculture has done and can do for apiculture. Chicago, 1893, 6 p. First published in Proceedings of the twenty-third annual meeting of the North American Bee-keepers' Association held at Washington, D.C., December 27, 28, and 29, 1893.
NAL Call No. 422 R45
Riley, Charles Valentine. The Yucca moth and Yucca pollination. St. Louis, 1892:99-158, 34-43. Third Annual Report of the Missouri Botanical Garden, issued May 28, 1892.
NAL Call No. 430 R45Y
Goode, C.R. A memorial appreciation of Charles Valentine Riley. Science, III, no.59 (February 14, 1896), 8 p.
NAL Call No. 120 R45Ma
Howard, Leland Ossian and C.V. Riley. Bulletin Philosophical Society of Washington 13: 412-416.
NAL Call No. 120 R45H
Riley, Charles Valentine. Lichtenstein, Jules i.e., Wilhelm Auguste Jules. Riley et L'entomologie agraire aux Etats-Unis. Monpellier, 1875, 5 p.
NAL Call No. 423 L61
Riley, Charles Valentine. Bibliography. The principal writings of Dr. Charles Valentine Riley. n.p., 1893, 9 p.
NAL Call No. 240.2 R45
Riley, Charles Valentine, 1843-95. Bibliography. U.S. Bureau of Entomology. Bibliography of the most important contributions to American Economic Entomology... Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1889-1905. Vol. 8, 23 cm. At head of title, pt. I-VII: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Division of Entomology; pt. VIII: U.S. Department of Agriculture. Bureau of Entomology. Continued by Index to the Literature of American Economic Entomology, issued by American Association of Economic Entomologists. CONTENTS: Pt. I-III: The more important writings of Benjamin Dann Walsh and Charles Valentine Riley. By Samuel Henshaw, 1889-90. Pt. IV-V: The more important writings of Government and state entomologists and other contributors to the literature of American Economic Entomology. By Samuel Henshaw, 1895-96.
NAL Call No. 1 En83B or 241.7 In2 1889-1905
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