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friends, to read, write and smoke, but he appreciated the fact that 

 his working days were over. In May, 1897, he removed to a fishing- 

 club house at Beesley's Point, New Jersey, and spent much of the 

 Summer out of doors. In November he came to Philadelphia to 

 attend a reception by the American Philosophical Society to Fridthof 

 Nansen, and soon after returned to the Jersey coast. He had in- 

 vited a few friends to spend Thanksgiving day, November 25th, 

 with him, when the end came suddenly and unexpectedly on No- 

 vember 24th. The funeral, on November 27th, at the house on 

 Franklin Street, Philadelphia, was attended by many friends and 

 representatives of the associations of which he was a member, and 

 the Rev. Dr. Henry C. McCook delivered an eloquent and appro- 

 priate address. His body was buried in his father's lot in Central 

 Laurel Hill Cemetery. 



In considering Horn's work reference must be made to his relation 

 to LeConte. Horn wrote of him '^i ; " We all knew him as a cul- 

 tured scholar, a refined gentleman, a genial companion, a true friend. 

 To me he was more. For nearly twenty-five years our association 

 has been of the most intimate nature. I sought his advice and in- 

 struction as a neophyte in entomology, finding a welcome which I 

 had no reason to expect.* Our friendship ripened to an intimacy 

 never shadowed by the slightest cloud." 



Some of the following pages will describe their association in work, 

 and the contrast which the two men presented. A foot-note to 

 LeConte's last paper, " Short Studies of North American Coleoptera 

 No. 2" (Transactions Am. Ent. Soc. xii) states that the manuscript, 

 left in a fragmentary condition by the author at his death, — LeConte 

 died November 15th, 1883, — was completed by G. H. Horn. Le- 

 Conte's collection was bequeathed to the Museum of Comparative 

 Zoology at Harvard College, and of this Horn wrote ^^^ : " Some 

 months after the death of Dr. LeConte I considered it a duty to 

 assist in fulfilling his will by suitably preparing his cabinet and 

 transporting it to the Museum at Cambridge. Annually since I 

 have made one or two visits for the more accurate study of its types 

 after a thorough study of my own material had been completed. 

 In that collection I find not only the bare facts, for which I seek, 

 but much besides. In the more than thirty years of our association 

 there is not a box which has not been before us the topic of discus- 



* The original has "except" — surely an oversight in proof-reading. 



