Bruner's name is connected with Nebraska in the field of entomology, for in that state he took his education and later became its state entomologist. His special interest lay in the field of economic entomology and his studies of grasshoppers of the region are important. He did much collecting in western United States and in Mexico. The one letter of this early date was written from West Point, Nebraska and addressed to Ezra T. Cresson, Sr., being concerned with his knowledge of the early Nebraska Association for the Advancement of Science, whose publications appear in 1877. The letter is pasted in the back of a reprint from the Proceedings of this association, a reprint of two pages giving the original descriptions of Hymenoptera by a gentleman named La Munyon.