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(Tovernnient in the matter, but without success. Subsequently " The Entomological Commis- 

 sion," consisting of Messrs. Riley, Packard and Thomas, was appointed by Act of Congress, 

 and Prof. Grote was keenly disappointed at his failure to obtain a place upon it ; this failure 

 he, rightly or wrongly, attributed to the adverse influence of Dr. Riley, and for many years he 

 took every opportunity of criticizing in vehement language the work of this distinguished 

 Entomologist. He was, however, employed by the Commission in 1878 to visit Florida, 

 Georgia and Southern Alabama for the purpose of investigating the insects injurious to the 

 cotton plant, and especially to make observations upon the supposed migrations of the moth. 

 His In-ief report is incorporated in the large volume published by the Commission in 18S5. 



Early in 1873, in consequence of the loss of his wife, he left Alabama, and removed to 

 Buffalo, N.Y., where he became curator of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, and began 

 the publication of its Bulletins, to which he contributed the larger proportion of the articles. 

 In 1878 his reputation as an Entomo'ogist had become so assured that he was elected 

 Vice-President of section B of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and 

 delivered his address at St. Louis on the subject of " Scientific Education." In 1879 he began 

 the publication of a monthly magazine, " The North American Entomologist," but the venture 

 did not prove successful, and was abandoned after the issue of a single volume. During his 

 residence in Buffalo he delivered a number of lectures on various subjects, many of which were 

 published in the Scleatijic American and the Popular Science Monthly ; he also wrote 

 many essays and a philosophical book, " The New Infidelity," subsequently translated 

 into German, which (to quote his own words) " met with warm praise and severe criticism, but 

 enjoyed only a small sale." In 18S2 he had published in London, England, a volume of poems 

 collected from various periodicals to which he had contributed them ; the principal poem dealt 

 with the ghost theory in evolution, and was favorably reviewed by Mr. Herbert Spencer. The 

 versatility of his talents was further shown by his devotion to music ; while in Buffalo he was 

 organist of one of the principal Episcopal Churches, and subsequently composed many pieces of 

 music, one of which only was publislied, and even attempted the composition of two operas, 

 which, however, he found too great a task and never completed 



Owing to the death of his father he left Buffalo and returned to his okl home on Staten 

 Island" There he remained for a few years onlj' and flien left for Europe, where he spent the 

 remainder of his days. His large collections of North American Lepidoptera were sold to the 

 British Museum, where his failure to obtain a position on the staff caused him keen disap- 

 pointment. For ten or eleven yeai's he lived at Bremen in Germany and then removed to 

 Hildesheim, where he spent the last nine years of his life in the congenial position of honorary 

 assistant in the Roemer Museum. During all these years abroad he was by no means idle, but 

 continued to contribute to several periodicals in North America including the " Canadian 

 Entomologist," and to publish numerous essays both in English and German of a high scientific 

 value, and many of them dealing with abtruse philosophical questions. 



We may now turn to his connection with our own Society. As long ago as 1868, he v as 

 elected an Honorary Member in company with such distinguished Entomologists as Drs. 

 Leconte, Horn and Packard, Messrs. Scudder, Riley, Edwards, Cresson and Glover. Our 

 association of him with these eminent men is a sufficient proof of the estimation in which we 

 held his scientific attainments at that time. His contributions to the Canadian Entomologist 

 began with its second volume in 1869 and continued with little intermission down to the present 

 time ; in fact the editor has still in his hands several papers sent in by Mr. Grote during the 

 last few months. These articles must number several hundreds, and they were supplemented 

 by some longer, very interesting papers published in these Annual Reports. An excellent 

 likeness of him appeared in the issue of the Canadian Entomologist for January, 1895, and 

 in the 25th Annual Report for 1894. 



