JOURNAL 



J}f\a J^oph ^jni^omologirfll HoriFJ^g. 



Vol. XXII. DECEMBER, 1914. No. 4. 



JOHN ARTHUR GROSSBECK, WITH A BIBLIOG- 

 RAPHY OF HIS PUBLISHED WRITINGS. 



By Wm. T. Davis, 



New Brighton, N. Y. 



John Arthur Grossbeck was born in Paterson, N. J., of German 

 parentage, February 2, 1883, and died on the Island of Barbadoes, 

 April 8, 1914. He suffered from a form of diabetes for about a year 

 and took this last journey with his devoted brother in the hope that 

 his health might be benefited. 



While as a boy he attended for a few years the public schools in 

 Paterson, he was in fact chiefly educated out of school. His mother 

 was a widow and poor and he had to go to work as soon as he was 

 able, and being very able it was very soon. He worked for a farmer 

 one summer, then in a factory, and next became a house painter. He 

 learned this last trade pretty thoroughly. It was while he was a 

 painter and long before be became of age that he began to make 

 notes and drawings of the insects that he saw when he went afield, 

 and as he did everything he undertook with much neatness and care, 

 this enterprise was no exception. 



He learned from what he read in a daily paper that Mr. Jacob 

 Doll, of the Brooklyn Museum knew a lot about Lepidoptera, and so 

 he took the first opportunity to call and show him his drawings in the 

 hope that he might get names for the insects that had interested him 

 so much. Mr. Doll has assured me that he had no difificulty in 



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