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(where he made his home at 224 Palisades Ave., for thirty-five 

 years) and frequently its delegate to the diocesan convention; to 

 genealogical and historical research, in which he was the author of 

 many books and papers ; and to entomology. He was the senior mem- 

 ber of the Massachusetts Historical Society during the last year of 



Mr. Harris and Mr. Leng, at Callicoon, Sullivan Co., N. Y., where Cicin- 

 dela marginipennis is found on the stones in the foreground. 



his life, having outlived all who were already members when he was 

 elected; a member of the New England Historical Society, New York 

 Genealogical and Biographical Society, 1 the American Museum of 

 Natural History and the New York Entomological Society. In ento- 

 mology he became a specialist in the family Cicindelidse and gathered 

 during the last twenty years of his life a collection phenomenal for 

 its extraordinary number of specimens as well as species and for the 

 extreme neatness and accuracy with which each specimen was pre- 

 pared and labeled. This collection, which included exotic as well as 



1 A portrait and biography was published in the July number of this 

 society's "Record" (Vol. L, No. 3, pp. 209—211). • 



