Art. XX. — Mew Motlis, firmcipally collected >>y Mr. 

 HoIaEid Thaxter iei I^Iaasie, ^«'ith note^ oai noxious 



ispecie§ and resBiarks osi classiiicatiosi. 



By A. R. Grote. 



While Pennsylvania and its chief city, Philadelphia, hold classic 

 ground which has witnessed the labors of the early writers in America 

 on Entomology, such as Haldeman, the elder Le Gonte, Melsheimer, and 

 Say, Massachusetts and Boston are no less to be remembered, with Cam- 

 bridge, where Harris (;ollected and wrote. In fact most of the older 

 States had their entomologist, not a " State entomologist," but some one 

 who made himself felt in the then small but growing literature of our 

 science during the first half of the present century. Eandall in Maine ; 

 Kirtland in Ohio; Drs. Morris in Maryland, Fitcli in Xew York, Leonarci 

 in i^ew Hampshire, are instances that occur to one in writing. Nor will 

 Jaeger, D'Urban, and Oemler be forgotten, or Peck, to wbom Harris was 

 indebted for early inspirations. From early sympathy, rather tlian asso- 

 ciation, I have belonged to the eastern circle of " enemies of the net." 1 

 have Avandered along the lanes of Cambridge, about the university 

 grounds and again walked the paths of Boston Common, beneath the 

 elms, sub tegumine nlmi, before I grew to man's estate, and conjured up 

 the figure of Dr. Harris studying Ceratomia* I could never think of Dr. 

 Harris as " furtively boxing" his captures. There was something quiet 

 and earnest bound up with my idea of the man and bis work, Avhich pre- 

 cluded the notion that he cared for what might be thought, by passers- 

 by, of his occupation. Yet he must have been unobtrusive, if not timid, 

 by nature. Still less can I think of him armed, cap-npir^Wko the mod- 

 ern or Euglish collector. I supjiosed then, and still think, tliat few note*' 

 his going and coming, on those walks which furnished facts for his let- 

 ters to the Rev. Dr. Leonard or to Doubleday. He seemed to me to 

 have been A'^ery different from Say, a slower and more careful man, equal 

 to his state. An nnattractivc hero, perhaps, with the same conserva- 

 tive ideas as the mass of his fellow-townsmen. Yet, to n)e, he was 

 greatly worthy of veneration, and I was undecided whether he were the 



* TUo odd way in wliich " II ". for " Harris," Avas afterward turned into a contrar- 

 tiou for " Hubn'er," I liavc writ ton about elsewhere. Dr. Clemens made no ori'^ical 

 compilatiou of the literature of the S^ihiiigido! in his "synopsis'" of that family, and 

 Dr. Morris oulv copies Clemens. 



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