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some 49 plates of that volume. No further information has been 

 secured regarding this man. 



Herman Strecker, who published an illustrated work on tht 

 Lepidoptera in 1872-1877, and who amassed a very remarkable 

 collection in that order, was born in Philadelphia, March 24, 

 1836, and died at Reading, that State, November 20, 1901 . The 

 illustrations for Strecker's work consist of 15 quarto sized plates 

 which were drawn by himself on stone and afterward colored by 

 hand. Miss Emily Morton is said to have acted as his colorist 

 in this work. The drawings are good but not of the very highest 

 quality. They do not compare favorably, for instance, with 

 those by either J. Henry Blake or Mary Peart. The coloring 

 also is of mediocre quality and this is particularly noticeable in 

 some of the larger moths, but, considering the difficulties under 

 which Strecker labored, his work must be considered as quite 

 remarkable. 



Miss Emily Morton, born at New Windsor, New York, April, 

 1841, drew many larvae for A. S. Packard's "North American 

 Lepidoptera," and colored many of the plates for Herman 

 Strecker's work on the Lepidoptera. Miss Morton is quite an 

 entomologist and has been especially active in the study of the 

 biology of the Lepidoptera and has succeeded in hybridizing 

 several of the larger Bombycine moths. 



There is no doubt that the artist-entomologist best known to 

 the general public in America was Charles Valentine Riley; 

 born at Chelsea, London, England, September 18, 1843, and 

 who died as the result of an accident at Washington, D. C., 

 September 14, 1895. Dr. Riley holds preeminence in the pub- 

 lic eye in this particular respect, not necessarily because he was 

 actually the foremost exponent of this difficult art in this coun- 

 try, but rather because he was the best advertised draughtsman 

 that we ever had. There is no doubt whatever that Dr. Riley 

 was a most excellent draughtsman of the German school and that 

 the earlier years of his career he did a large amount of very good 

 work with the pencil. This period of activity in America was 

 confined principally to the years 1868 to 1877 while he was 

 engaged in the production of his famous Missouri Reports, which 

 Riley himself considered the greatest achievement of his Ife. 

 It is not generally known that Riley made several fine paintings 

 of insects in oil colors for the Missouri Reports which were not 

 included and still remain unpublished. After his arrival in 

 Washington, Dr. Riley made practically no entomological 

 drawings, doubtless because he was too busily engaged with 

 administrative and other duties. The illustrations for his 

 publications of this period were all made by other draughtsmen, 

 excepting, of course, those which were reprinted from published 

 works such as the "Missouri Reports," and even in the case of 

 the latter papers Dr. Lugger is responsible for the statement 



