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tributions to the Lepidoptera were published in the early proceed- 

 ings, and those of Henry Edwards in the seventies. 



On April 21, i860, Governor J. G. Downey approved "an act 

 to create the office of State Geologist, and to define the duties 

 thereof." J. D. Whitney* was appointed Geologist, with the fol- 

 lowing assistants: W. H. Brewer,t J. G. Cooper,:]: W. M. Gab'b,§ 

 William Ashburner, Chester Averill, Charles Hoffmann and Clar- 

 ence King. Most of these men collected a great many Lepidop- 

 tera and Coleoptera in different parts of California, which were 

 described by Dr. Behr and other specialists ; the names of most 

 of these men are familiar to us in the names of well known and 

 interesting insects and other animals. 



The fourth period, from 1870 to 1890, showed a great increase 

 in students and work, due to the opening of the transcontinental 

 railroad. Henry Edwards, the most conspicuous person during 

 the period, did a vast amount of collecting in all parts of the State 

 and published accordingly; he was an actor by profession, and a 

 prominent member of the Bohemian Club, as was also Dr. Behr. 

 R. H. Stretch, author of " Zygaenidse and Bombycidje of North 

 America," 1872, was a mining engineer of considerable ability, 

 and collected, as chance offered, in various parts of the State. G. 

 R. Crotch, an Englishman and a Coleopterist, came in 1872 and 

 collected all over the coast from southern California to British 

 Columbia; he exposed himself to such an extent in his field work 

 that he contracted pneumonia and died soon after his return to 

 the east ; he was especially a student of Buprestidae and Coccinel- 

 lidse. H. K. Morrison in the early eighties collected considerably 

 in southern California in all orders. Tryon Reakirt collected 

 about Los Angeles and in northern California, but his published 

 work was careless and his labeling deficient ; he got certain things 



* Entomologists have not forgotten Whitney. Vide Catocala whitneyi 

 Dodge and Lemonias whitneyi Behr. 



t Compare Corymbites breweri Horn. 



t Dr. Cooper was a companion of Dr. Leconte on the Pacific expedition 

 fifteen years earlier. Cantharis cooperi is for him, also lepidopterous 

 species named by Behr. 



§ A close friend, in fact the closest, of Dr. George H. Horn. He left 

 Philadelphia to take this position, making a specialty of Palaeontology. 

 Cicindela gabbii is one of his monuments. 



