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WORK IN ST. PETERSBURG 
to ornithology, following a most honorable career of many-sided usefulness, prin¬ 
cipally in Southern Russia. Ilis biography and portrait were published in the 
Collection of Biographies of Russian Naturalists, edited by Prof. A. BogdanofF, at 
the expense of the Imperial Moscow Society of Natural Sciences , in three quarto 
volumes (1888-1891), with 38 plates containing 342 portraits. Schatiloff’s por¬ 
trait is in Yol. II, Plate YII; his biography is in Vol. II. 
Later on, in St. Petersburg, where I received my education and 
entered (in 1849) into the service of the Imperial Foreign Office, 
I made collections in all orders of insects except Lepidoptera. The 
results of this work of mine, so far as published, are represented 
by the first three numbers of my “ List,” namely: — 
1 (1854). An article in the Stett. Ent. Zeit. in which I set 
forth some ideas on a new classification of the Tipulidae , which 
ideas I carried out in later years (1859, 1868, etc.). 
2 (1857). Another paper in the Stett. Ent. Zeit. refers to my 
discovery, in the environs of St. Petersburg, of the long-lost and 
misunderstood Tipida ( Trocliobola ) anmdata Linrnh 
3 (1857). A pamphlet of one hundred and sixty-six pages in 
Russian, which I had left in manuscript when I departed for the 
United States in 1856, and which for that reason was published 
during my absence. This work contains a general survey of the 
insect fauna of the environs of St. Petersburg so far as known 
at that time, with a List of species of the different orders (except 
Lepidoptera'), geographical and historical accounts, etc. This 
publication brought to a natural conclusion the first period of 
my entomological career. 
In 1856 I was appointed Secretary of Legation in Washington, 
and started for my destination in the first days of April of that 
year. During my journey, which lasted two months, I made the 
acquaintance of the principal entomologists and zoologists in the 
cities I visited. At Ivonigsberg, Prussia, I met Dr. II. A. Hagen , 
and formed an acquaintance which ripened later into a lifelong 
friendship, and became of great importance for American ento¬ 
mology. (A notice of Dr. Ilagen will be found in Part II, 
Chapter XI.) Some of the German entomologists — King and 
Itulhe (Berlin), Kiesemvetter (Dresden), Schiner, Brauer , Kolenati , 
etc. O ienna), C. A. Dohrn (Stettin) — I had already met during 
