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Foreword ix -- Prologue xiii -- In Lieu of a Preface xv -- Ch. 1. Beginning with Notions and Some Facts 1 -- 1. It All Did Not Start with Hippocrates. 2. Of Bees and Their Diseased Brood. 3. From "Nine Diseases of Sericulture" to Agostino Bassi and Louis Pasteur. 4. Entomophagous Insects and Other Animalcules. 5. "Vegetable Wasps" and "Plant Worms." 6. Protozoan, Bacterial, and Viral Diseases of Noxious Insects. 7. Kirby's "Diseases of Insects." 8. Of Diseased Earthworms, Crabs, and Oysters. 9. Elie Metchnikoff: A Fascinating Pioneer and a Champion of Comparative Pathology. 10. From LeConte and Forbes: The Beginnings of Microbial Control. -- Ch. 2. Early Twentieth-Century Probes 97 -- 1. Roland Thaxter's Contributions to Insect Pathology. 2. The Florida Story of the Use of "Friendly Fungi." 3. Beauveria bassiana and Its Many Roles. 4. Metarrhizium anisopliae and Related Fungi. 5. And of Cordyceps, Septobasidium, and Coelomomyces. 6. Bacteria as Microbial Agents. 7. Summary. -- Ch. 3. Insect Pathology in California 143 -- 1. Beginnings. 2. Research at the Laboratory of Insect Pathology. 3. A Period of Transitions. 4. Irvine: Promise and Frustration. -- Ch. 4. Insect Pathology Overseas 275 -- 1. German Insect Pathology. 2. French Insect Pathology. 3. Swiss Insect Pathology. 4. Italian Insect Pathology. 5. Insect Pathology in the Netherlands -- Ch. 5. Come Now, Let Us Reason Together 327 -- 1. Some Beginnings. 2. International Meetings. 3. Meetings in the United States. -- Ch. 6. Of Books and Journals 393 -- 1. Those Who Paved the Way. 2. Ventures in Writing. 3. Adventures of an Editor. 4. Ramblings of an Author. 5. Ramblings of an Editor. Bibliography 433 -- Index to Authors Cited 469 -- Subject Index 475