Organic Natural History in University of California many years until 1895. 

 The closing years of his life were spent at Ocean Park and Santa Monica. He 

 studied and wrote on Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, reptiles, fossil and living shells. 

 He described several new species. His last paper describing a new fossil shell 

 from San Pedro was published in the Bulletin of Southern California Academy 

 of Sciences in July 1913. He was a great naturalist and a splendid gentle- 

 man and all who knew him will always hold him brightly in memory. He took 

 an active interest in the California Academy of Sciences. Like the others in 

 the group, he was associated with all the early scientists, including John and 

 Joseph LeConte. 



Albert Koebele has collected specimens for the Department of Agriculture 

 at Washington in various parts of the world, ever since he was of age. At 

 present he is on a three years' leave of absence in Germany. 



George W. Dunn collected Coleoptera all over the Pacific Coast. He 

 died in San Francisco in 1905. 



James H. Behrens was a famous collector, chiefly of Lepidoptera, during 

 the early days of California. He died in San Jose in 1897 having previously 

 sent his fine collection to Lubeck, Germany. Several insects bear his name. 



Prof. Charles Fuchs resides at 713 Lincoln Ave., Alameda v is Curator 

 of Entomology of the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco and is 

 one of our best known Coleoptensts. He was one of the five members who 

 started the Brooklyn Entomological Society. For some years he was in charge 

 of the Entomological Department of the University of California. 



Col. Thomas A. Casey, a distinguished writer on Coleoptera, is in Wash- 

 ington, D. C. He has achieved a world-wide fame and is in the very zenith 

 of his activity and usefulness. 



Prof. W. G. W. Harford was born in Rochester, N. Y., December 30, 

 1825; died March 1, 1911. For several years he was a director of the 

 Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, and for four years was connected 

 with the University of California. He studied and described Crustacea and 

 shells and collected plants and insects. Colias Harfordn Hy. Edw., was named 

 in his honor. 



The original photograph from which this cut was made was presented 

 to my father by Albert Koebele at the time it was taken. I should be thankful 

 to receive photographs of all the pioneer Entomologists of this state and will 

 return them if desired. 



COMMERCIALIZING SCIENCE. 



"The Butterfly Farmer is interesting, but I don't like the commercializing 

 of the Science. The real interest is lost." This is from the letter of a friend 

 and helper whose name is enrolled among the famous entomologists. The answer 

 I made contains an earnest appeal for further light, and is published in the hopt 

 that I may receive replies from many scientists. I wrote thus: 



I wish you had been more explicit in stating your objection to "commer- 

 cializing science." Has there ever been a time when collectors did not receive 

 money for specimens? Do not many scientists have to accept positions because 

 of the salary? Is it not true that four-fifths of the entomologists of America are 

 selling their talents in State Insectaries, in the employ of the Government as 

 Curators of Museums, as assistants to those owning great collections, in order 

 to get bread and butter? Do not the teachers and professors in our schools and 

 colleges barter their scientific knowledge for the means of a livelihood? Is the 



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