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cently donated to the United States National Museum. The results 

 of this collecting during the summer and fall at Detroit and during 

 the following winter in Florida were ready for exhibition at the 

 first Detroit meeting of the American Association for the Advance 

 ment of Science held in August, 1875. and at once attracted the 

 attention of the visiting entomologists. This was a notable gather 

 ing. For the first and only time an entomologist, Dr. LeConte, 

 was president of the Association. Of the group of men who 

 shared the hospitality of the Hubbard mansion, LeConte, Riley, 

 and Lintner are gone ; but Osten Sacken, Grote, Scudder, and 

 others will remember the hours spent in the little wooden museum 

 building on the Hubbard place. 



In 1876 Hubbard commenced a series of expeditions to the 

 Lake Superior region, and other similar expeditions were made in 

 1877 and 1878. Mr. Schwarz accompanied him on the first two, 

 and the entomological results are summed up in the well-known 

 paper entitled u The Coleoptera of the Lake Superior Region." 

 In the early part of 1877 he accompanied his uncle on a trip to 

 Jamaica. This was not a collecting trip, but his observations 

 made on the Jamaican Termites, published by Hagen, are evi 

 dence of the fact, which later became so pronounced, that nothing 

 could deter him from making entomological investigations which, 

 from his keen insight and persistence, were always of lasting value. 



In 1879 he accepted the position of Naturalist to the Geological 

 Survey of Kentucky, then under Shaler's direction. Work was 

 then being done in the Cumberland Mountains, and Hubbard at 

 once became interested in the fauna of the caves which abound in 

 that region. This interest increased, and he conducted further 

 studies of the caves in the center of the State. Some of the results 

 were published in his oft-quoted article, " Two days' collecting 

 in the Mammoth Cave," a paper which marked the real beginning 

 of our knowledge of insect cave life. 



A terrible calamity to the Hubbard family occurred at this time. 

 Two of his brothers were drowned in a sailing accident on Lake 

 St. Clair, and this altered his future career. One of these brothers 

 owned a place at Crescent City, Florida, and Hubbard was called 

 upon to look after this property. This sad accident was, there 

 fore, indirectly the cause of the fact that Crescent City has become 

 so well known, in fact, so famous a name in entomological litera 

 ture. 



