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Prot. Grote paid two visits to London in 1876 when he went over the .Society's entire 

 collection of Lepidoptcra in order that the specimens might be accurately named before 

 transmission to the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, which was held that year. He also, 

 when living in Buffalo, assisted many of our members in the determination of their moths and 

 spared no pains in this laborious work, considering himself well repaid by the occasional 

 discovery of a new species. 



The name of Prof. Grote will long be held in honor by those who knew him personally or 

 through correspondence ; it will also go down to posterity attached to the specific and generic 

 nimes of many hundred moths of which he was the original describer. In common with all 

 other human beings he had his weak points and thereby incurred the animosity of some against 

 whom he would vent h's wrath in no measured terms ; but to most he was kindly and genial, 

 always ready to help where he could, and to his intimate friends warmly affectionate even after 

 lung years of separation. 



We may fitly close this sketch with the following quotaticm from one of his own essays : 

 " Even in comimratively so small a social field as Entomology affords, the man of science may 

 oppose the purely selfish action, the insincere statement, and try to correct the limited 

 experience which prompts so many faults. From the contemplation of much that is paltry 

 and much that is stupid in tlie writings and doings of Entomologists, he can at least always 

 turn for relief to Nature herself, standing high above all the schools which strive but to 

 translate her. He may drink in all the loveliness of the world and refresh his soul by 

 wanderings in field and forest, by expansive lake and winding stream. And, when the 

 summer is past and the roses, by thousand ways and voices Nature will still amuse him,^ 

 until tired of the quest, he falls into the last sleep in the arms of the universal mother." 



C. J. S. Bethune. 



