52 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol. IX 



About the time of my first meeting with Calverley I formed 

 the acquaintance of Hermann Strecker, of Reading, Pa. I was 

 surprised to learn what an extensive collection he possessed. He 

 had many correspondents in various parts of the world, so we 

 benefited mutually by exchanges. Strecker was by profession a 

 sculptor, but as that art was not then greatly in demand, he found 

 it more lucrative to do tombstone lettering. Of comparatively re- 

 stricted means, by the most rigid self-denial he accumulated one 

 of the grandest collections of Lepidoptera in the country, publish- 

 ing numerous papers and describing numerous species. His writ- 

 ings are quite humerous, especially in reference to Grote, with 

 whom he was often on any but friendly terms. His language, not 

 always Chesterfieldian, was pungent, witty and entertaining. He 

 died quite suddenly, November 30, 1901. 



Through Prof. Spencer F. Baird, secretary of the Smithsonian 

 Institution at Washington, I learned the name and address of Prof. 

 J. A. Lintner, later state entomologist oi New York. I opened 

 correspondence with him and obtained two specimens of Pieris 

 oleracece, then a great rarity. Through the further kindness of 

 Prof. Baird I received a copy of the " Synopsis of North Ameri- 

 can Lepidoptera " by Rev. John G. Morris, of Baltimore. This 

 was a valuable acquisition to us as it was the most important work 

 to date in systematic arrangement of the order^ and, though incom- 

 plete, it constituted a basis for the formation of synoptic tables. 

 It furnished Grote with many ideas and principles pertaining to 

 identification, and he shortly afterwards began describing new 

 species, or what he supposed to be such. One of the first species 

 which he named was Diphthera graefii in my honor, but it subse- 

 quently proved to be a synonym of A crony eta innofata. Grote was 



lived and the valuable books he bought he should have been a man of 

 virealth. Singular to state, he left a very small estate and his heirs made 

 inquiries of me as to whether I might give a clue to some of his invest- 

 ments, lest he might have deposited funds in places of w^hich he left no 

 record. — E. L. G. 



Mr. Calverley was a tory, also an economist. For many years he em- 

 ployed a neighboring barber. When, during the war the price of a shave 

 was raised generally from six to ten cents, he bought razors and thereafter 

 shaved himself. He regularly took a horse car from De Kalb to Grand 

 St. ferry. When the price was raised from five to six cents he walked and 

 never took a car thereafter. — Ed. 



