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I have, for example, on the wall of my Hbrary, two pictures. The 

 one is a painting, picked up many years ago in Vienna, of the type of 

 entomologist who was misunderstood and ridiculed and therefore 

 became typical of a popular idea. He is an elderly man of some 

 period more than a hundred years ago, careless in his attire, runnhig 

 through a field with a butterfly net, collecting insects, chasing an elu- 

 sive specimen. The other picture, an old colored lithograph, shows a 

 collector, past middle age but dressed in the height of style of the 

 period of BufTon (1707-1788) or perhaps of Cuvier (1769-1836) — 

 a Compte or a Baron surely — also with a butterfly net, standing in a 

 forest glade, examining a specimen with a large hand-glass. Possi- 

 bly at the time when this lithograph was drawn on stone entomology 

 was stylish at the French court. Possibly the man was so highly 

 placed that he could stand any ridicule of his occupation. No one 

 knows which. 



At any rate, here and there one of the nobility took up the subject. 

 Seventy years or more ago, a London banker named John Lubbock 

 became interested in ants. He was subsequently knighted, and later 

 became Lord Avebury ; was made a member of the Royal Society, 

 and ranked high among England's scientific men. A man of much 

 older title was the late Thomas Lord Walsingham who, although an 

 ardent sportsman and distinguished in many ways, became a world 

 authority on the Microlepidoptera and was quoted in entomological 

 publications all over the world. The Russian revolution brought 

 aliout the death of another distinguished Lepidopterist, the Grand 

 Duke Nikolas Michailowich, a grandson of the Czar, Nikolas L He 

 was a man of rare culture, whose leisure was devoted both to ento- 

 mology and the study of history. He published a magnificent series 

 of memoirs on the Lepidoptera, illustrated by superb plates. For his 

 historical work he was made a member of the Institut de France, and 

 for his entomological work an honorary member of the Entomo- 

 logical Society of France. King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is another 

 Lepidopterist of a royal family, but he does not confine his interest 

 to insects alone, since he has always been a student of birds. 



Col. Thomas A. Casey, the distinguished American Coleopterist, 

 used to think that he was alone among the military men who were 

 interested in entomology, but there are historic precedents, and I 

 add, in concluding this section, two anecdotes of French officers of 

 distinction, that I have gathered from the Transactions of the Ento- 

 mological Society of France, that concerning Dejean in the volume 

 for 1845, '^^^ that concerning Pradier in the volume for 1875. 



