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The first catalogue of Lepidoptera was the work of Dr. JOHN 
G. MORRIS, and appeared in 1860 and was published by the 
Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. Dr. MORRIS was a 
delightful old gentleman when the writer became acquainted with 
him, and lived in Baltimore, Maryland. 
All honor is due to that great German entomologist who was 
born in Koenigsberg and finally made America his home. Dr. HER- 
MAN AUGUST HAGEN became professor of Entomology at Harvard 
College in Cambridge, Mass. His principal contribution to the 
entomology of this country was the « Synopsis of the Neuroptera 
of North America, with a List of South American Species ». The 
« Bibliotheca Entomologica », by his pen, is consulted every day in 
the year. Another distinguished European entomologist who did a 
large amount of work in America was C. R. OSTEN SACKEN. 
Every entomologist should read that most interesting book entitled 
« Record of my Life Work in Entomology ». 
For twenty-one years Baron OSTEN SACKEN was Secretary of 
the Russian Legation in Washington and resided in the United 
States. He served as Secretary of the Russian Legation in 
Washington and as Consul general of Russia in New York. 
These twenty-one years were, as far as regards entomology, 
principally devoted, in collaboration with Dr. H. LOEW, to the 
task of working up the Diptera of North America north of the 
Isthmus of Panama. The large and valuable collection of Diptera 
made by OSTEN SACKEN he most generously presented to the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, Mass. 
It would necessitate a number of volumes to enumerate the 
works that have appeared and mention can only be made of some 
of the men who have also done acceptable work. In the Hymeno- 
ptera may be mentioned Mc COOK, NORTON, BLAKE, Fox, 
ASHMEAD, BASSETT. In the early days Dr. BRACKENRIDGE 
CLEMENS, V. T. CHAMBERS and C. H. FERNALD furnished much 
information on the Micro-Lepidoptera. 
The museums have had a phenomenal growth and at the present 
time are palatial buildings, costing in some cases millions of 
dollars. 
The principal entomological collections are in the National 
Museum at Washington, D. C.; the Academy of Natural Sciences 
of Philadelphia; the American Museum of Natural History in 
New York; the Museum of Comparative Zoology in Cambridge, 
