RICHARD E. KUNZE, M. D., PHAR. D., B. S. 



The man who writes the history of the pioneer entomologists of the Pacific 

 Coast has an enviable task. Without an exception they were brainy men, strong, 

 original characters, honest, courageous, the highest type of manly men. 



Well up near the head of the list will stand the name of Richard Ernest 

 Kunze, Physician, Pharmacist, Entomologist, Botanist and all that the last sen- 

 tence contains. Born in Altenburg, Germany, April 7, 1 838, of an old Thurin- 

 gian family, he was given a liberal education, including the classics, Latin, French, 

 English and Greek. He was especially devoted to the Natural Sciences, and 

 among some of his instructors were Schlenzig the Lepidopterist, Professor Apers 

 the Entomologist, and young Karl Brehm, the future Ornithologist and African 

 traveler. 



Arriving in America in 1 854, he graduated from the Metropolitan Medical 

 College, and afterwards from the Electric College of New York. For twenty- 

 seven years he successfully practiced medicine in New York City, and, because of 

 failing health, in 1895 he came to Denver, and the next year to Arizona. Medical 

 Botany and Entomology had always been his hobbies, and the medical and scien- 

 tific journals of both continents have always been eager to publish his articles. 



At Phoenix, Arizona, he has maintained for nearly twenty years a Cactus 

 Farm, which has not only made him world-famous, but has given him a good 



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