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could not in any other way have brought together what has 

 become not only the most valuable and complete collection of 

 Lepidoptera in the world, but also, as far as I know, the 

 most perfect collection of any objects of natural history in 

 existence. 



Nothing was too small or too much trouble for Staudinger. 

 His specimens were labelled and set with greatest care and 

 accuracy. He was in correspondence with all the best collectors 

 in Europe, and he trained young men to assist him in his work, 

 and when he found one whose industry and ability satisfied 

 him he sent him to collect in places which seemed likely to be 

 profitable, and thus by exchange, purchase, and personal hard 

 woi'k, amassed an unrivalled series of European Lepidoptera, 

 on which he based the Catalogue which is so widely known, the 

 first edition of wliich was published at Dresden in 1861, and 

 the nomenclature of which has since the appearance of the 

 second edition in 1871 been practically accepted by those best 

 qualified to judge of its accuracy. 



In 1860 he went, in company with Dr. Wocke, who under- 

 took the preparation of that part of the Catalogue which relates 

 to the Microlepidoptera, on a journey to Northern Norway, and 

 spent the summer at Bosekop on the Alten-fiord. An excel- 

 lent account of this journey and of the rich collections made 

 was published in the twenty-second volume of the " Stettiner 

 Zeitung," and though Dr. .Schoyen of Christiana, Sparrer- 

 Schneider of Tromso, and others have since actively collected in 

 the same region, this paper remains the best account we have 

 of the Arctic Lepidoptera of Europe. 



In 1862 Staudinger again visited Central Spain, and spent 

 the greater part of the season in the Sierra de Guadarama, at 

 La Granja and San Ildefonso. 



In 1866 he collected at Celles-les-bains in the South of 

 France, and in 1872 made a second joui-ney to Finmark, but 

 neither of these expeditions seem to have produced as great 

 results from an entomological point of view as his two former 

 ones. 



In 1870 he published in the seventh volume of the " Horie 

 Entomologicse " a most valuable and complete catalogue of the 

 Lepidoptera of Greece, mainly based on the large collections 



