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was Stephen H. Calverley. I shall never forget the many happy 

 hours I spent among his treasures.* I well remember that he 

 had a specimen of Catocala relicta, mounted in a separate small 

 glass-covered box, as one of his greatest rarities. This had been 

 twice sent to Europe for exhibition and was the only specimen 

 known to us. My friendship with Mr. Calverley was forwarded 

 by the fact that my father had quite a large European herbarium 

 and he stipulated that he would exchange for exotic Lepidoptera, 

 mostly from China, which were to be turned over to me. These 

 and other exotics which Mr. Calverley possessed were obtained by 

 him from sailors employed on the vessels controlled by ]\Ioses 

 Taylor & Co., where Mr. Calverley was employed as weighmaster, 

 which position brought him in contact with seafaring men from 

 almost every port. The Chinese specimens were bought from the 

 natives, who arranged them in glass-covered boxes. All orders 

 were included, and they were intended for display as curiosities 

 only. 



Mr. Calverley together with W. H. Edwards and Mr. Weiden- 

 meyer, undertook to publish a monograph on the Sphingidse. The 

 plates were issued but the mss. were never completed, in fact it 

 is doubtful whether they were ever begun. This work was in- 

 tended for distribution only among museums and similar institu- 

 tions, and consequently only 150 copies of the plates were printed. 

 Three copies were to be colored for the three authors and the bal- 

 ance to be distributed uncolored. The plates were destroyed. Al- 

 though I would have been willing to pay a comparatively exorbi- 

 tant sum for a copy, Mr. Calverley flatly refused to let me have 

 one, at which I was greatly chagrined. Mr. Calverley intended 

 that his collection should go to the British Museum, but before he 

 made arrangements to that end he became deranged, having be- 

 come quite old, and was taken to an institution in Auburn, N. Y., 

 where he died. Subsequently his heirs donated his collections, 

 together with the plates of the Sphingidae, to the Brooklyn Insti- 

 tute of Arts & Sciences.* 



* The Calverley collection was merged with the great general collection 

 of the Brooklyn Institute, including all of Mr. Graef's own types, all the 

 Neumogen treasures, and more. The specimen which stands out pre- 

 eminently still is the type of Papilio calverleyi Grote. 



* Mr. Calverley was of very secretive disposition. From the way he 



