BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BROOKLYN ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Vol. IX October, 1914 No. 4 



CONTENTS 



DEVELOPMENT OF CALIFORNIA ENTOMOLOGY, GrinnelL . . 67 



RECOLLECTIONS OF CHAS. FUCHS, Leng 12> 



SHORT STUDIES IN GEOMETRIDAE, No. 4, Pearsall 76 



NEW NEOTROPICAL HETEROPTERA, Bueno 79 



MONOGRAPH OF THE SPHINGIDAE, Skinner 84 



LONG ISLAND RECORDS 84 



THE DEVELOPMENT OF CALIFORNIA ENTOMOLOGY. 



By Fordyce Grinnell, Jr., Pasadena, Cal. 



Robert E. Cowan, of Oakland, an appreciative student of Cali- 

 fornian history, says somewhere : " In the annals of recorded his- 

 tory, ancient or modern, there is perhaps no section or territory 

 that in its growth and development presents so many remarkable 

 features as does that of California, whose entire history is almost 

 a unique annals of romance and reality." It would only be neces- 

 sary to read Willard's History of Los Angeles, or McGroarty's 

 California, Its History and Romance, to convince anyone of the 

 above statement of Cowan. The development of Califomian 

 science is no exception. I have always been very much inter- 

 ested in its early naturalists, maybe because I became acquainted 

 with one of the greatest, the late Dr. Behr, and some others, Har- 

 ford, Wright, Rivers, Fuchs, and more. ''iStitafT^ 



" Sun, friend and flower have each become 

 A part of my immortal part; 

 They are not lost, but evermore 



Shine, live, and bloom within my heart." 



Looking back over a long period of years, the important fea- 

 tures stand out and we can properly judge their place in history; 

 so with science in California, this history may be divided into four 

 or five quite distinct periods, as Brewer did in the second volume 

 of the Botany of California, and others: 



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