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and I were what may properly be called " bosom friends." In early life 

 we were engaged in similar scientific pursuits, and living but a few hours' 

 distance from each other, our mutual visits were frequent and our warmest 

 friendship and confiding intercourse continued uninterrupted to the end. 



It is well known that in early life he devoted much of his time to our 

 favorite science, to which he made some valuable contributions. His 

 principal papers are : Materials toward a History of Coleopterous Longi- 

 cornia of the U. S.; Corrections and Additions to this paper; Description 

 of N. Am. Coleoptera ; Cryptocephalinorum Borel. Am. Diagnosis. 

 These papers give evidence of honest and painstaking research, patient 

 analysis and sharp discrimination, and are profitably consulted by investi- 

 gators at the present day. 



Of late years he had turned his attention particularly to the study of 

 Language, and became a distinguished member of the Philological 

 Society. All readers know the celebrity he attained in that department 

 and the ardor with which he pursued those studies, but notwithstanding 

 their engrossing attractions, he never ceased to feel an interest in every- 

 thing that concerned our department. It is hard for a man to forget his 

 first love. 



Thus much I thought it proper to sny of the lamented Haldeman. 

 He was no ordinary man whom you might compliment with a passing 

 respectful obituary notice. In science and letters he was a great man. 

 His memory will be long cherished by admiring friends. " Idem extmctus 

 amabitur." It may not be out of place to mention here one fact to me, 

 at least, personally interesting. Less than two months ago the monument 

 of Haldeman, chiseled out of enduring granite by Strecker. a brother 

 Entomologist, was erected over his grave by the pious care of the skillful 

 artist himself, who spends his days in cutting marble and granite into 

 classic forms, and half of his nights in studying and figuring the butterflies 

 of his own unequalled private collection. 



Gentlemen, forty years ago I could count the known working Ento- 

 mologists of our country with the first ten numerals. The older Mels- 

 heimer, who may properly be designated as the father of our science in 

 this country. Say, Peck, Gould, Randall, Peale, and a few other pioneers,, 

 had died or retired, and the only workers then were Harris, of Cambridge; 

 Major LeConte and his son John L., of the City of New York; Fitch, of 

 the State of N. Y.; Haldeman, Melsheimer, jr., and Zeigler, of Penna., 

 and a few others of no special note, were the only ones, as far as is at 



