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I, for the moment, had forgotten insect life and its interest when my 

 companion started suddenly and quickly. Throwing back his left 

 arm to prevent my advance — almost, in fact, pushing me back — he 

 snatched a cyanide bottle from coat pocket, pulled the cork and 

 rapidly, though stealthily, placed the mouth over a large moth rest- 

 ing with outspread wings upon the bark of a live oak near by. As 

 he replaced the cork he said " Bronchclia hortaria, a fine specimen" 

 and, almost in the same breath, '' Do your friends still live in Bos- 

 ton? " this last question a continuation of the interrupted conversation 

 of a few minutes back. This incident is also typical of his character. 

 He was an accomplished, well-read man and could converse with 

 charm upon varied topics, but he never wholly forgot his favorite pur- 

 suit. In the midst of talk upon literature, art, travel, a faint, almost 

 hidden entomological allusion would rouse him to capture and hold it. 

 He was a charming man, gentle, modest, utterly loyal in his friend- 

 ships. When I returned home a few weeks after first meeting him 

 I found a copy of his large work on the Geometridre sent by him 

 with a pleasant inscription on a blank leaf. We corresponded at 

 intervals after that and often met, my brother's house being usually 

 his home when he came to New York, and he often visited us at our 

 cottage in the White Mountains. In July, '88, he wrote : " I am 

 slowly collecting material for a monographic revision of the Bombyces 

 and ZygcXnidx, with special reference to the larval histories." " The 

 great want now is colored drawings of the larval stages, from the 

 tgg up, of these groups, like those worked out so fully by Mr. W. H. 

 Edwards for the butterflies." 



I tried, with varying success, to help him in this. He was anxious 

 for material for the life history of my Ecpanthcria dciiudata but I 

 failed to secure it. In his absence from home the eggs or larvae of 

 this species sent by me from time to time were not found by him till 

 too late and he was much disappointed. His artist and friend, Mr. 

 Joseph Bridgman took an enthusiastic interest in the work and I 

 have many letters from him concerning his success or failure in 

 raising material sent by me in Professor Packard's absence. Both 

 were greatly interested in my finding in the larva of Scirarctia echo 

 the " army worm " of the east coast of Florida where it was then 

 very destructive locally. I sent some of the first eggs I could procure 

 and as Dr. Packard was just about starting for Europe he handed 



