BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Vol. IX June, 1914 No. 3 



CONTENTS 



EARLY BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGISTS, Graef 47 



PHORIDAE OF ILLINOIS, Malloch 5'^ 



NEUROPTERA FROM U. S., Navas 60 



SWIMMING CATERPILLARS 62 



PYRAMEIS CARDUI IN CALIFORNIA, Grinnell 63 



NEW JERSEY RECORDS 63 



PROCEEDINGS OF THE BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL 



SOCIETY 63 



SOME EARLY BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGISTS. 



By Edward L. Graef, Honorary President of the Brooklyn 

 Entomological Society. 



In 1848 my parents came to the United States from Aix-la- 

 Chapelle, Germany, with my five brothers and sisters and myself, 

 the youngest, six years of age. We settled in that part of Brook- 

 lyn then known as Yellow Hook, now Bay Ridge, where my 

 father, Henry A. Graef, established himself as a florist. He had 

 previously been interested in natural history, principally botany, 

 and upon his arrival here, began making a collection of local 

 plants. 



Several years later we moved to the more central portion of the 

 city, and subsequently, while attending Prof. Joseph Deghuee's 

 school from 1853 to 1858, I formed a close acquaintance with two 

 schoolfellows, Frederick Tepper and Augustus Radclyffe Grote. 

 About 1854 we became interested in making collections of insects. 

 Our inspiration undoubtedly came from a small book, " Hand- 

 buch fiir Schmetterlingsliebhaber," von J. W.'Meigen,* published 

 in Aix-la-Chapelle in 1827. This gave us much information about 



* This volume by Meigen, the great Dipterest, while, in a way a " pot 

 boiler," was as good foundation to beginners as Europe afforded. It was 

 octavo, 218 pages of text and 16 plates. 



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