\'0L. Mil] IN MEMORIAM: CARL FUCHS OJ 



His first appearance in nomenclature was in connection 

 with a Staphylinid named by G. Kraatz. He discovered that 

 interesting Httle coleopteron which Dr. Geo. Horn called 

 ^gialites fuchsii. Professor J. J. Rivers dedicated Cychrus 

 fuchsiana to him. Brendel remembered him in the Psela- 

 phidae. and named Brachyccpsis fuchsii and Articerus (Fusti- 

 gcr) fuchsii after him. 



Mr. Fuchs supplied Colonel Casey with much material, as 

 a perusal of that author's writings will show. He received 

 credit for many forms described as new by Casey. In his 

 revision of the Lathridiidse of Boreal America, Professor Fall 

 dedicated to him a genus, Fuchsiana. It was founded upon 

 an unique blind Lathridiid collected while sifting earth and 

 vegetable mould from about the roots of redwood trees near 

 Mill Valley, Marin county, California. This genus is by far 

 the most extraordinary oi our North American Corticariini. 



Mr. Fuchs was a most skillful preparator of insects; in 

 fact, his work was unique and without equal for the care he 

 bestowed upon both large and small specimens, which made 

 the study of his material a joy to the taxonomist. 



Mr. Fuchs also contributed much material and moral sup- 

 port to the author of the "Monographic Revision of the Eleo- 

 diini of the United States," in appreciation of which Dr. 

 Blaisdell named Eleodcs fuchsii. 



So the last tribute to our friend and colleague is about to 

 terminate. We have missed Mr. Fuchs when we have been 

 assembled together to carry on entomological work ; we have 

 missed his kindly face and smile. Specimens of his handi- 

 work are still with all of us and we prize them more than 

 ever, now that he is gone. Yet we should in thankfulness re- 

 member that he had attained a goodly age, and that he was 

 himself in spirit and personality to the last. We must rever- 

 ence his patient and courageous meeting of the end of his 

 labors. During our last moments of conversation he would 

 pause and, with his chin resting in his hand, he would gaze 

 through his study window into space with a serious and sad- 

 dened look; but quickly the kindly smile returned and it did 

 brighten our hearts, for he knew, and we knew, that the part- 

 ing of the ways was at hand. We saw that there was no fear 



