72 Bulletin of the Brooklyn Entomological Society Vol. IX 



Note : The footnotes to j\Ir. Grinnell's fine paper are by the 

 Editor. 



The pioneers did a lot of work; the period from 1870 to 1890 

 probably will never be equalled for activity, but nevertheless it 

 was only a beginning ; we have a lot to find out yet. 



About 1888, when Lieutenant Thomas L. Casey, now Colonel 

 Casey, retired, was detailed to California for some engineering 

 work, he took active part in the San Francisco A.cademy of Sci- 

 ences. One day he induced a group of local entomologists to 

 visit a photograph gallery, the result of which is given in Plate 

 III. of this number. Colonel Casey mislaid his copy of the photo- 

 graph many years ago. Albert Koebele, the veteran collector, 

 gave his copy to C. F. McGlashan, himself a collector of over 

 thirty years' experience at Truckee, Cal. It was then published 

 in the Butterfly Farmer, March, 1914. It includes the foremost 

 Calif ornian entomologists of that time. 



Professor John James Rivers, an Englishman, came to Kansas 

 about 1870, thence tO' the University of California to become Cu- 

 rator of Organic Natural History. He retired in 1895, but con- 

 tinued active as an amateur, dying in Santa Monica, 1913, within 

 a few days of his ninetieth birthday. His hobby was Coleoptera. 

 Albert Koebele, while not a youngster, is still active and will 

 always be best knoAvn by his collections for the United States 

 National Museum. Carl Fuchs anglicised his name as Charles. 

 He was known to every prominent beetle collector in the world. 

 His synopsis of the Lucanidas has not been superseded in forty 

 years. His first appearance in nomenclature was for a Staphyli- 

 nid named by G. Kraatz. He unearthed the strange little creature 

 which Dr. Horn called MgiaUtes fuchsii and thereafter devoted 

 considerable time each year to collecting it to be given with his 

 compliments to Coleopterists all over the world. The checklist 

 contains another little species, Scydmccnus niarice Lee. This is 

 named for Mrs. Fuchs, whose hospitality no one ever forgets. 

 Charles Fuchs never worked for money. He worked hard, the 

 first mortgage on his earnings going for sustenance, but all be- 

 )^ond that going for entomology. On his arrival in California, 



