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made in that country between 1858 and 1869 by his old friend, 

 Dr, Theodore Kriiper, a veteran naturalist who is still 

 flourishing at Athens, and whose personal acquaintance I had 

 the pleasure of making this year. 



This work remains the only account we have of the Lepidop- 

 tera of Greece, and is indispensable to any one who wishes to 

 study European Lepidoptera. 



In 1875 Staudinger, having long desired to see for himself 

 the East, made what I may call his greatest and most success- 

 ful expedition to Asia Minor. He took with him from 

 Dresden as assistant Emil Funke, who has since made some 

 collecting trips to the East on his own account, and who has 

 told me of Staudinger's indefatigable energ'y in collecting on 

 this occasion. After spending the whole day under a burning 

 sun, and returning loaded with spoil, Staudinger would sit up 

 night after night to collect by lamp-light. 



The party remained at Amasia the whole season of 1875, 

 making excursions of two or three days in the environs, and 

 returned with an immense quantity of specimens in the autumn. 

 The results of this expedition were published by the Russian 

 Entomological Society in the fourteenth and fifteenth volume 

 of the " Horee " in 1879-80, and form a volume of over 600 

 pages, the largest separate work which Staudinger ever 

 wrote. 



In 1880 and 1884 Staudinger again visited Spain and 

 Portugal, stopping at Chiclana, Granada, and Lisbon. 



In 1887 he visited the province of Constantino in Algeria, 

 spending most of his time at Lambessa, but has unfortunately 

 published no detailed account either of the Lepidoptera of Spain 

 or of Algeria. 



Before this he had begun to suffer from a disease of the 

 heart, which eventually killed him, and though he still made 

 annual trips to the Alps, he was unable to endure much bodily 

 exertion. He continued however to occupy all his time in the 

 study of liis collections, and wrote numerous papei-s mostly 

 descriptive of new species in the "Iris," "Stettiner Zeitung," 

 and other periodicals. His work, though constantly interrupted 

 by illness, was carried on with the same interest and vigour as 

 ever, and though he was frequently obliged to leave his museum 



