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with the kind assistance of his friends, he started a new one 

 at once with all of his old-time energy. 



Only those who were about him during that fearful calamity 

 will ever realize the agony that he must have suffered when 

 driven from his home on Kearny street — well do we remem- 

 ber the number, 212 — leaving behind his collection containing 

 a generic series which he took with him, hoping against hope 

 that the remainder would be safe: and later the despair, when 

 he realized that his life's work was in ashes. After a period 

 of depression, his old-time energy revived and at the time of 

 his death he had amassed another large collection. 



His neatness and exactness in the preparation of entomo- 

 logical material was unique and characteristic of him. It 

 gained for him the appointment of assistant curator in the en- 

 tomological department of the California Academy of Sci- 

 ences, where he worked up to the time of his last illness. 

 After the San Francisco disaster, and while the Academy was 

 unsettled, he received the appointment of preparator and as- 

 sistant in the entomological department of the University of 

 California, where he was known by the students as Professor 

 Fuchs. When the California Academy of Sciences was again 

 ready for his services he returned to it. 



His widow, Marie Fuchs, who was a typical and devoted 

 helpmate, could even excel her husband in the care and 

 mounting of the coleopterous Pselaphidse. 



In the death of Mr. Fuchs, one of the last of a group of 

 the older entomologists has passed away; to this group be- 

 longed Frederick Blanchard, Samuel H. Scudder, Henry 

 Ulke, and Philip Uhler. The younger entomologists of the 

 Pacific Coast, many of whom were his intimate friends, have 

 ever been stimulated and enthused by his earnestness and 

 example. 



He was a member of the California Academy of Sciences, 

 and also of the Deutsche Entomologische Gesellschaft of Ber- 

 lin. In his earlier years he contributed short articles and 

 notes to the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society. 

 In 1882 he published a synopsis of the Lucanidse of the 

 United States. Short papers were read by him before the 

 Pacific Coast Entomological Society while president, which 



