he died in the latter city on the 12th 
of September. For two considerable 
periods, he made his home on Staten 
Island. His father, who was one of 
the promoters of the first Staten Island 
steam railroad, resided on a pleasant 
country place on Rockland Road, near 
Egbertville. The place is still attract- 
ive with its many fine ornamental trees, 
its pond and nearby woodland. It was 
here that Mr. Grote, asa little boy, 
commenced his entomological studies. 
In a letter written in 1886, he says: 
“T am myself the first Staten Island 
entomologist so to speak. I made my 
first collection in 1856, gumming the 
bluebottle flies on cardboard. I then 
had not heard of pins or that there was 
such a thing as a science and literature 
of insects.’’, Later a kind old German 
gardener told him about insect pins, 
some of which were procured. 
In the preface to his ‘‘Check List of 
North American Moths’’, publisned in 
May, 1882, Mr. Grote mentioned the 
time when as a boy he ‘‘ caught Cicin- 
delas on the south beach of Staten 
Island ”’ 
e was for some time director of the 
Buffalo Academy of Natural Sciences, 
but upon leaving Buffalo came to Staten 
Island. This, if [remember correctly, 
was in 1880. He resided at New 
Brighton in one of the Jackson cottages, 
on the retired lane that leads from 
Franklin Avenue. The surroundings 
of this cottage were very pleasant, and 
he had his large collection of moths 
arranged on two low shelves in one 
corner of the living room or library. 
It was here that he received many 
scientific friends—Prof. C. H. Fernald, 
Mr. Henry Edwards, and others. 
When a box of moths was taken to him 
he would name them at sight, giving 
the authorities as well as the scientific 
names. 
In this line, he was wonderfully ex-— 
pert and accurate. He used to tell me 
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what danger his collection was in, as 
the little cottage was liable to be des- 
troyed by fire and the type specimens 
lost. Oddly enough, his prediction re- 
garding the cottage came true, but not 
until he had sold his collection to 
the British Museum and removed to 
Germany. 
Mr. Grote was not only a lepidop- 
terist of authority but was the author 
of ‘“‘Genesis I, II;’’ ‘‘The New Infi- 
delity;’’ ‘‘Rip Van Winkle: A Sun- 
myth and Other Poems’’; ‘‘Education 
and the Succession of Experiences,”’ 
and four popular science lectures, de- 
livered in the course before the Buffalo 
Society of Natural Sciences. In spite 
of ‘‘The New Infidelity’? he seemed 
kindly disposed toward the church near 
his home, and on one occasion made 
it quite a donation. 
In a letter from Germany in 1885, he 
writes: “I have written a pamphlet on 
our Hawk Moths, besides a lot of papers 
for Canadian Entomologist, and a lct 
of music. The bands here play some 
of my pieces. The Emperor, and the 
Duke of Coburg, have accepted my 
dedications. ”’ 
Dr. Arthur Hollick exhibited a map 
of Silver Lake, on which the depths 
and sub-aqueous contours were in- 
dicated, and read the following mem- 
orandum: 
DEPTH AND FORM OF THE SILVER LAKE 
BASIN. 
At the meeting of this Association on 
September 13th, 1884, a paper was read 
by Mr. L. P. Gratacap, in which he 
gave the results obtained from a series 
of soundings in Silver Lake. The 
greatest depth noted was 16 feet 6 inches 
Recent investigations, in connection 
with condemnation proceedings for 
Silver Lake Park, have included 
measurements of the depth of the lake, 
which has been plotted in a series of 
rectangles, with the figures represent- 
