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Until 1849, when lie went to the Berlin University-, and 

 studied medicine and natural science, receiving his Doctor's 

 diploma in 1854, when he published his first Entomological 

 work, " De Sesiis agri Berolinensis." 



Before completing his studies he began to travel and collect 

 Lepidoptera with great energy. His first journey, in 1852, was 

 to Switzerland and Montpellier in France, where several good 

 entomologists then resided. 



In 1854 he made a collecting expedition to Sardinia, of 

 which no complete account, as far as I know, has been 

 published. 



In 1856 he went to Iceland, where he spent the whole 

 summer, and soon after his return published in the eighteenth 

 volume of the "Stettiner Entomologischer Zeitung" a most care- 

 ful and complete account of his collections, giving full details 

 of the climate of the island, the nature of localities which he 

 visited, and the life history and variation of the insects he found. 

 Notwithstanding the scarcity of Lepidoptera in Iceland, this 

 paper is one of the highest value and interest, and should be 

 studied by all young collectors as a model of what such a paper 

 should be. 



On Jan. 23rd, 1857, he married the daughter of a retired 

 oflicer named Grabow, and went with his bride on a journey 

 to Spain, Avhere he resided for over a year, and where his 

 first daughter, Carmen Dolores, now the wife of Dr. A. 

 Bang-Haas, was born at Granada. In 1858 he made 

 excursions in the Sierra Nevada, and resided six months at 

 Chiclana, near Cadiz, where he collected insects with great 

 success. 



About this time he published his first priced catalogue of 

 Lepidoptera, which has since come out regularly every year, and 

 has become a sort of price curi'ent of Lepidoptera, on which all 

 other European dealers base their lists, Staudinger was not 

 a rich man, and being an excellent man of business, no doubt 

 found what a great advantage it gave him to be able to dispose 

 of the numerous and valuable duplicates which he acquired. 

 Thus he bought the very large and fine collection of Julius 

 Lederer of Vienna, and though he was always somewhat reti- 

 cent as to his business affairs, yet I liave no doubt that he 



