Excerpt from Memorial of the Funeral Services for Stephen Alfred Forbes, Ph.D., LL. D., Chief, State Natural History Survey, Professor of Entomology, Emeritus, University of Illinois: Smith Memorial Hall, University of Illinois, Sunday, March 16, 1930, 3 O'clock, Urbana, Illinois The house m which my father was born was built of logs, but his father was obliged to sell the farm on which this house Stood, as a result of having endorsed a note for a friend, and had to begin again, on a new farm, in a house built of the Slabs produced by the squaring of logs at a saw-mill. Among the conveniences of this house were a cat-hole 1n the door, and a knitting hole 1n the wall. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.