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lepidopterous insects of Georgia, is an example of the combination of 

 artist and entomologist, and his published drawings give no idea of 

 the amount of the work he actually did, nor any real idea of its beauty 

 and accuracy. There are bundles of unpublished drawings in the 

 British Museum, a few of them in the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, and others scattered about. Some of the insects figured have 

 never been found since; some, described from the figures by Guenee, 

 Boisduval and others have never been satisfactorily identified, and I 

 well remember my hunt through Paris, over twenty years ago, under 

 the guidance of M. Aug. Salle after the original of one of Boisduval's 

 descriptions, which was finally located in the possession of a former 

 housekeeper, who fell heir to some of the effects of her master. 



A hale, hearty old man was Dr. J. G. Morris, of Baltimore, when 

 I first met him thirty years or more ago, and never was I more pleased 

 to meet any one because, somehow, I had received the impression that 

 he was dead. Dr. Morris made the first attempt to gather together the 

 descriptions of American lepidoptera, and his volume in the Smith- 

 sonian series proved a very useful one to the collectors of that day. 

 Unfortunately the scheme was never completed, and a very small sec- 

 tion only of the Heterocera is represented in the volume. Dr. Morris 

 did not, I believe, ever describe either genus or species, and never 

 pretended to any extensive collection. 



A. R. Grote, of Buffalo, and later, New York, was a most earnest 

 worker in the heterocerous lepidoptera and chiefly in the Noctuidae. 

 To him we owe the first satisfactory arrangement of our species, and 

 the identification of the species described earlier by Guenee and Walker. 

 It was no light task, and how remarkably well done it was I did not 

 realize until years thereafter, when I undertook similar work. Mr. 

 Grote's collection is now in the British Museum, where I have had the 

 opportunity of comparing its types with those of Walker and Guenee 

 which are also in that rich treasure house. 



Mr. W. H. Edwards, of Coalburg, W. Va., I never met, although 

 his death is comparatively recent. But his magnificent work in the 

 butterflies lives on, and will continue to live. Mr. Edwards was much 

 more than a describer of genera and species. He was a real student 

 of the life of the insects, and he did more to make known their early 

 stages than any one other worker: and besides, he set up a standard 

 of thoroughness and accuracy, that our younger students must live up 

 to if they expect their work to be regarded. His collection is now in 

 the Carnegie Museum, at Pittsburgh. 



Mr. Henry Edwards, of New York City, was one of the centers of 

 entomological interest in that city — hearty, whole-souled, enthusiastic. 

 He made friends wherever he went and his travels carried him not only 

 throughout our own country, but into Australian and Asiatic countries 



