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Charles V. Riley

(Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895)

Charles Valentine Riley (18 September 1843 – 14 September 1895) was a British-born American entomologist and artist. He was one of the first individuals to use biological pest control and authored over 2,400 publications. He convinced Congress to create the United States Entomological Commission and was among the founders of the American Association of Economic Entomologists. (From Wikipedia)

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San Jose scale in Maryland. (Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, 1898), by Willis Grant Johnson (page images at HathiTrust)
Bibliography of the more important contributions to American economic entomology ... (Govt. Print. Off., 1887), by United States. Bureau of Entomology and Samuel Henshaw (page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Charles V. Riley:

Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects (Washington: GPO, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Remarks on the Insect Defoliators of Our Shade Trees (New York: Globe Stationery and Printing Co., ca. 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)

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Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The acorn moth. Holocera glandulella. n. sp. (1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Address before the St. Louis Academy of Science : at its annual meeting for 1877 (R.P. Studley Co., printers, 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Aeronycta betulae, n. sp. (1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Agricultural advancement in the United States. (1881) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Aletia xylina vs. A. Argillacea. (1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The American entomologist. (Hub Pub. Co., 1868), also by George Vasey and B. D. Walsh (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Annual address of the president. (Washington, 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Annual report on the noxious beneficial, and other insects of the state of Missouri. (Regan & Carter, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Catalogue of the exhibit of economic entomology at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago Ill., 1893 (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, 1893), also by Ill.) World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The cotton worm : summary of its natural history, with an account of the enemies, and the best means of controlling it : being a report of the progress of the work of the Commission (Govt. Print. Off., 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Descriptions and natural history of two insects which brave the dangers of Sarracenia variolaris. (1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Descriptions of some New Tortricidæ (Leafrollers) (1881) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Dipterous enemies of the Phylloxera vastatrix. (1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects (Gutenberg ebook)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Einige unserer schädlicheren inskten (Gedruckt bei Theo Schrader & co, 1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: An enumeration of the published synopses, catalogues, and lists of North American insects : together with other information intended to assist the student of American entomology (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, 1888), also by United States. Bureau of Entomology and United States. Division of Entomology (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: First [-ninth] annual report on the noxious, beneficial and other insects, of the state of Missouri : made to the State board of agriculture, pursuant to an appropriation for this purpose from the Legislature of the state (Jefferson City, Mo., 1869), also by Missouri. Entomologist (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: First [-ninth] annual report on the noxious, beneficial and other insects, of the state of Missouri, made to the State board of agriculture, pursuant to an appropriation for this purpose from the Leglisature of the state. (Jefferson City, Mo., 1869), also by Missouri. Entomologist (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: 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. (Govt. print. off., 1878), also by United States Entomological Commission, Cyrus Thomas, and Alpheus Spring Packard (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Fourth report ... being a revised edition of Bulletin no. 3, and the final report on the cotton worm, together with a chapter on the boll worm. (Govt. Print. Off., 1885), also by United States Entomological Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Fourth report of the United States Entomological Commission : being a revised edition of Bulletin no. 3, and the final report on the cotton worm. -- (Govt. Print. Off., 1885), also by United States Entomological Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Further notes on yucca insects and yucca pollination ... (Washington, D.C., 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The genus Colias. (1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Habits and natural history of the ox bot in the United States. (Washington, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Hackberry psyllid galls. (1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The horn fly (Haematobia serrata), being an account of its life-history and the means to be used against it. (1889), also by L. O. Howard (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: How to distinguish between Limenitis disippus Godt., and L. ursula. Fabr., in their preparatory states. (1871) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The Icerya, or Fluted Scale : otherwise known as the Cottony Cushion-Scale (Govt. printing office, 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The imported elm leaf-beetle. Its habits and natural history, and means of counteracting its injuries. (Washington, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Improved method of spraying trees for protection against insects (Salem Press, 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Injurious insects of Maryland (Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Insect life ... : Devoted to the economy and life habits of insects, expecially in their relations to agriculture ... (Govt. print. Off., 1888), also by United States. Bureau of Entomology (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Insect life ... : Devoted to the economy and life habits of insects, expecially in their relations to agriculture ... (Govt. print. Off., 1888), also by United States. Bureau of Entomology (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Is Megastigmus phytophagic? (Philadelphia, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Larval habits of bee-flies. (1881) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: List of the Lepidoptera of boreal America (American Entomological Society, 1891), also by John Bernhard Smith, Henry Devenish Skinner, George Duryea Hulst, and Charles Henry Fernald (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Little known facts about well known animals (Judd and Detweiler, 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: 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. (Rand, McNally & Co., 1877) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The mulberry silk-worm : being a manual of instructions in silk-culture (Government Printing Office, 1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The mulberry silk-worm : being a manual of instructions in silk-culture (Government Printing Office, 1888) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: A new herbarium pest. (1891) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: A New insect injurious to wheat (s.n., 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: New species of Prodoxidae. (1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The Noctuidae in the Missouri entomological reports. ([n.p.], 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: North American microgasters (St. Louis, 1881) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Notes on joint worms. (1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Notes on North American Psyllidae. (1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Notes on the natural history of the grape Phylloxera, (Phylloxera vastatrix, Planchon). (1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Notes on the yucca borer, (Megathymus yuccae (Walk.)). (St. Louis, 1876) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Notice of an "Illustrated essay on the Noctuidae of North America." (Brooklyn, 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: On the cotton worm (Washington : Government Printing Office, 1885., 1885), also by United States Entomological Commission and United States Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: On the insects more particularly associated with Sarracenia variolaris (Spotted trumpet-leaf). (1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: On the larval characters and habits of the blister-beetles belonging to the genera Macrobasis Lec. and Epicauta Fabr. ([St. Louis, 1878) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: On the parasites of the Hessian fly. (1886) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: 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 (Government Printing Office, 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Parasites of the cotton worm. (1879) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Parasitic and predaceous insects in applied entomology. (Govt. print. off., 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Parasitism in insects. (Washington, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The periodical cicada : an account of Cicada septendecim and its tredecim race, with a chronology of all broods known (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, 1885) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The philosophy of the movements of the Rocky Mountain locust. (Salem Press, 1879) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Philosophy of the pupation of butterflies and particularly of the Nymphalidae (Salem press, 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Poisonous insects /by Charles V. Riley... (William Wood & company, 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: "Polyhistor?" (1872) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: 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. (Orange Judd company, 1876), also by Orange Judd & Company (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: A pretty and unique gallmaking tortricid. (1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The problem of the hop-plant louse (Phorodon humuli Schrank) in Europe and America. ([n.p.], 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Recent advances in economic entomology (s.n., 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Remarks on canker-worms and description of a new genus of Phalaenidae. (1875) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Remarks on the bag-worm Thyridopteryx ephemeraeformis (s.n., 1884) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Remarks on the insect defoliators of our shade trees. (New York, 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Report of the entomologist for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1882 (Government Printing Office, 1882), also by United States. Bureau of Entomology (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Report of the entomologist for the year 1883 (Government Printing Office, 1883), also by United States. Bureau of Entomology (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Report of the entomologist for the year 1884 (Government Printing Office, 1885), also by United States. Bureau of Entomology (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Report on a small collection of insects made during the Death Valley expedition. (1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Report upon the parasitic Hymenoptera of the Island of St. Vincent. (1894), also by L. O. Howard and William H. Ashmead (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Reports of observations and experiments in the practical work of the Division (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, 1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Reports of observations and experiments in the practical work of the Division (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, 1884), also by United States. Bureau of Entomology and United States Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Reports of observations and experiments in the practical work of the Division (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, 1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Reports of observations and experiments in the practical work of the division made under the direction of the Entomologist. (Government Printing Office, 1887), also by United States. Bureau of Entomology and United States Department of Agriculture (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Reports of Observations and Experiments in the Practical Work of the Division, Made Under the Direction of the Entomologist (Government Printing Office, 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Reports of observations and experiments in the practical work of the division, made under the direction of the Entomologist (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Division of Entomology, 1887) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Retarded development in insects. (Abstract). ([Salem, 1882), also by American Association for the Advancement of Science (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: 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 (Govt. Print. Off., 1880), also by United States Entomological Commission, Cyrus Thomas, and A. S. Packard (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The Rocky Mountain locust. Further facts about the natural enemies of locusts. (1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The Rocky Mountain locust. Its metamorphoses and natural enemies. (1878) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The Rocky Mountain locust. Permanent courses for the Government to adopt to lessen or avert locust injury ([s.n.], 1880) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The Rocky Mountain locust. Remedies and devices for its destruction. (1878) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The San Jose scale (Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, 1895) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Scientific results of the United States eclipse expedition to West Africa, 1889-90 : Report upon the Insecta, Arachnida, and Myriopoda (1893) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Siebenter jahres-bericht über schädliche, nützliche und andere insecten des staates Missouri, den beschlüssen der Legislatur des staates gemäss, welche eine summe geld für diesen zweck bewilligt hat, an die Staat-ackderbau-behörde gerichtet (Regan & Carter, staats-druckerund buchbinder, 1875), also by Otto Lugger (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The silkworm : being a brief manual of instructions for the production of silk (G.P.O., 1879) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The silkworm : being a brief manual of instructions for the production of silk (Govt. Print. Off., 1883) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The silkworm : being a brief manual of instructions for the production of silk (Govt. Print. Off., 1882) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Social insects from psychical and evolutional points of view. (1894) (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Third report of the United States Entomological Commission, relating to the Rocky mountain locust, the western cricket, the army worm, canker worms, and the Hessian fly. (G.P.O., 1883), also by Cyrus Thomas, A. S. Packard, United States Department of Agriculture, and United States Entomological Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: Third report ... relating to the Rocky Mountain locust, the western cricket, the army worm, canker worms, and the Hessian fly. (GPO, 1883), also by United States Entomological Commission, Cyrus Thomas, and A. S. Packard (page images at HathiTrust)
Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895: The yucca moth and yucca pollination (Missouri Botanical Garden, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)

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