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ive in figure, heavily bearded, strong and alert, German in his 

 speech by preference and already famous locally for his large col- 

 lection of Coleoptera, especially in the families Scarabseidse and 

 Lucanidse. The first meeting was followed as soon as decency 

 permitted by a call at his home on the top floor of a building in 

 Bond Street, New York. There Fuchs maintained an establish- 

 ment for engraving gold jewelry for the trade, with several work- 

 men besides himself in a back room; each with a huge ball of 

 beeswax into which the work to be engraved was sunken. His 

 living apartments were in the front of the house and there I met 

 Mrs. Fuchs, whose hospitality has been recorded by Walther Horn 

 in Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, and the parrot and pet 

 dog that otherwise composed the family. Mrs. Fuchs was occu- 

 pied in cleaning part of the collection of Trox with a tooth brush 

 and warm water, the specimens being set, like the gold jewelry in 

 the back room, in balls of beeswax.* In those rooms I first saw 

 specimens of Plitsiotis and other large and handsome Scarabseidse, 

 and as a gift from Fuchs obtained my first Donacia and his in- 

 structions in collecting members of the genus. Each box as it 

 was opened displayed more and more wonderful creatures and 

 far too soon, according to my idea, the boxes were closed and an 

 adjournment taken to " Papa" Bornhagen's saloon, on the ground 

 floor, where a choice table near a back window seemed to be 

 reserved for Fuchs as a constant and honored visitor. 



Thereafter for a few years I met Fuchs frequently, but he was 

 at least twenty years my senior and the relation was that of a 

 boyish collector bringing his captures to be named. We never 

 went afield together but once. Fuchs must have been a dil-gent 

 collector before I knew him, for he had great quantities of local 

 insects and a fund of information as to their habits, but by the 

 time I knew them, few of the elderly members of the Brooklyn 

 Entomological Society went out frequently. They bought their 

 material from collectors like Morrison and Belfrage, and de- 

 pended for specimens to fill up their series of desirable local spe- 

 cies upon youngsters like myself who brought in their captures 

 to be named. The one occasion upon which I remember Fuchs 



* These much bebeeswaxed and betoothbrushed specimens never went 

 into the scientifically perfect collection of Mr. Fuchs. Later Mrs. Fuchs 

 developed great skill in preparing specimens. 



