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to lose all interest in the study which made him famous and died 

 young. 



Another old entomologist was the late W. V. Andrews,* a 

 rather eccentric Englishman, who was always at war with Grote 

 as to the determination of a specimen. Grote's first question was 

 invariably " Where did you get it ? " Andrews's answer was 

 equally invariable : " Never mind where I got it ; what is it ?" 

 And then the trouble began. Andrews had a very fair collection 

 of both Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. He described but one spe- 

 cies, Orthosia luteosa. Grote said to me that he was convinced 

 that the insect was new, but he did not dare describe it. I happened 

 to mention the fact to Andrews who thereupon lost no time in 

 naming and describing the specimen, which name, wonderful to 

 say, stands today. Mr. Andrews died rather suddenly in the 

 early eighties. 



In 1869 I received a letter from the proprietor of the California 

 theater in San Francisco requesting that I exchange with him. 

 This was Henry Edwards.* I maintained correspondence and ex- 

 changes with him for some years. When he came to New York 

 I became personally acquainted with him. He was connected with 

 Wallach's Theater and later became its manager. He was an 

 Englishman and had traveled in many countries as an actor. He 

 was years in Australia. This afforded him an opportunity of col- 

 lecting many species in all orders. He possessed a large fund of 

 scientific knowledge and described many species, principally in 

 Sesiidse and Noctuidse. Those who came in contact with him will 

 remember him as a genial companion and splendid man. 



All that has been stated up to this point is, however, but the 

 beginning of entomological activity in this vicinity. One after- 

 noon about 1870 I was summoned by a neighbor, a Mr. Joseph 

 Huhn, furniture dealer, who had then a place where my store is 



* Mr. Andrews was a prominent contributor to the early volumes of the 

 Canadian Entomologist. — Ed. 



* Henry Edwards never destroyed a letter on entomological matters. 

 His entire correspondence went with his collection to the American Mu- 

 seum of Natural History, where after many years it was rescued from 

 masses of unassorted matter, arranged, dated and filed in the Library by 

 Andrew J. Mutchler, assistant curator in invertebrate zoology. It will 

 figure prominently in the history of thirty years of American entomology. 



