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ing : Genesis I, II, An Essay on the Bible Narrative of Crea- 

 tion, the New Infidelity, Rip Van Winkle, a Sun-myth, and 

 other Poems. He was also a student of ancient roman mat- 

 ters. He left Buffalo in 1882 (?) for New Brighton, Staten 

 Island, New York, where he "remained until he took up his 

 residence abroad. Strecker* down to 1878 lists about one hun- 

 dred articles by Grote which appeared in the following publi- 

 cations : Ann. N. Y. Lye Nat. Hist. ; Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 

 Phila. ; Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Hist. ; Can. Ent. ; Bull. U. 

 S. Geol. and Geogr. Surv. iv, i ; Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. ; 

 Proc. Ent. Soc. Phila. ; Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. ; Rep. Pbdy. 

 Acad. Sci. ; Stett. Ent. Zeit. Since 1878 numerous articles 

 have appeared in Proc. Am. Philos. Soc. ; Can. Ent. : Papilio, 

 etc., and European journals. In 1862 the American Entomo- 

 logical Society honored him with membership. In July, 1879, 

 he entered into entomological journalism and edited the North 

 American Entomologist, published by Reinecke, Zesch and 

 Baltz in Buffalo, New York. One volume of twelve numbers 

 appeared. This was a very creditable publication, and among 

 its contributors were distinguished students of entomology. 

 He was an authority on the entomological fauna of Western 

 New York State, particularly the region about Buffalo, but 

 will be best remembered for his systematic work on North 

 American Noctuidae. He described numerous species of Lepi- 

 doptera, aggregating ov^r a thousand. His work made a 

 great impression on our literature of the subject, and was 

 painstaking and accurate. His descriptions are good, and his 

 species well known. He will undoubtedly be classed as one 

 of the greatest students of American Lepidopterology. His 

 catalogues were most valuable and universally used. A Check 

 List of the Noctuidae of North America was published by Rei- 

 necke and Zesch, at Buffalo, in 1876, and a new Check List 

 of North American moths at New York in 1882. His valuable 

 collection, containing the bulk of his types, was sold to the 

 British Museum some years ago.f 



* Butterflies. Moths. Syn. Cat. Reading 1878. 



t The portrait of Mr. Grote was supplied by his old friend and co- 

 worker Mr. Ottomar Reinecke of Buffalo. It was taken in 1877. 



