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now located, 58 Court St., to come and see a large insect ( !) from 

 Brazil. I hastened to comply, and was introduced to a large, 

 dark-feaured man, Prof. Franz G. Schaupp, who showed me 

 the creature, a live lizard of large size. Although not particularly 

 interested in the specimen, I was deeply impressed by the man. 

 He was of middle age, of very large proportions, weighing per- 

 haps 250 pounds, with a massive head crowned with curly hair 

 well tinged with gray. The hat which he wore would fall around 

 the ears of any person I have ever met. It measured No. 8. He 

 was pleasant, cordial and overflowing with good nature and 

 humor. We soon became greatly interested in each other as well 

 as in insects. Of course, we had to partake of a number of 

 beers, and he insisted on my accompanying him the next day to 

 what was then known as the Eastern District, which place, he 

 stated, fairly swarmed with entomologists, some in embryo, and 

 all of whom he desired should know me. So, the next day we sal- 

 lied forth and I was duly introduced to everybody in the neighbor- 

 hood who had a collection, even if it were only in a saloon where 

 the proprietor had a framed case of " flies " hung behind the bar. 

 As a sine qua non we had a complement of beers and I may be 

 pardoned if I cannot distinctly recollect all the distinguished ento- 

 mologists whose acquaintance I formed on that memorable occa- 

 sion. So much enthusiasm was created, however, that Professor 

 Schaupp and I suggested that we ought to meet regularly and 

 form some sort of an association. Accordingly a meeting was 

 called at Schaupp's room at No. 9 Broadway, which was well at- 

 tended and resulted in the formation of the Brooklyn Entomolog- 

 ical Society, the members of which were mostly composed of 

 those to whom I had been introduced by Professor Schaupp on 

 my first visit with him. Schaupp was the first President and I the 

 first Treasurer. His room, where the Society held its meetings, 

 must be ever memorable in the history of entomology. To those 

 who met here the place is more than memorable.* 



* In this room the Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society 

 was born in 1876. The survivors who had most to do with it were Mr. 

 Graef, Mr. Tepper, who has for many years lost interest in the study, and 

 Charles Fuchs, now of San Francisco, whose ill health has practically 

 ended the early career of one of the most beautiful souls on earth, whose 

 interest has never flagged in sixty years. No historic evidence can yet 



