roaming the fields on collecting tours. He collected about everything at first 

 that a healthy boy could collect. During his late Grammar and High School 

 days he began to correspond with various boys and some few scientists in the 

 East and abroad, and from the latter secured detailed information with regard 

 to the preparation of specimens and was assisted by them in naming his captures. 

 While in High School he moved to Los Angeles and came in contact for the 

 first time wtth a real Entomologist, Mr. D. W. Coquillett, who assisted him in 

 various ways, particularly by letting him name his beetles by the aid of the 

 scientist's specimens, most of which had been carefully named by Dr. George 

 Horn. They took many field trips together and Mr. Coquillett presented him 

 with numbers of specimens from his collection. Mr. Henry Ulke of Washington 

 about this time became interested in him, named many of his specimens and 

 received in return from him and his California friends large numbers of those 

 species which have since been listed in the Ulke collection. 



Entering the University of California in 1 889 he was fortunate in being 

 able to take certain courses under Professors John LeConte, Joseph LeConte, 

 E. W. Hilgard, Edward Green, Wm. E. Ritter and C. W. Woodworth. 

 Here he also came in contact with J. J. Rivers, who was then in charge of 

 the University Museum, who took the greatest interest in him and aided him in 

 a thousand and one ways. After graduating from the University he entered 

 Cooper Medical College in San Francisco and graduated in 1895. Enlisting 

 upon a hospital service which lasted several years he afterward successfully en- 

 gaged in private practice. In 1912 he was induced to abandon his profession 

 and enter College work and devote all his time and attention to Science. 



During all these years he kept up his entomological studies, spending all of 

 his vacations and spare time in the field. He met Mr. Charles Fuchs about 

 1 896 and Dr. Blaisdell in 1 899, and these two have been his close friends and 

 entomological associates ever since. In 1901-1902 he collected in various 

 localities from Massachusetts to North Carolina and had an opportunity to meet 

 many of the eastern entomologists. With the exception of this one year his work 

 has been confined to the Pacific Coast. He has collected in the Aleutian Islands, 

 in numerous places in Western Washington and Oregon, and with but very 

 few exceptions in every part of California. The present summer he will spend 

 in the western part of Washington and Oregon and on Mt. Shasta. 



At first he devoted quite a good deal of his time to Lepidoptera, but 

 during the last twenty years has concentrated upon Coleoptera, simply keeping 

 himself informed in a general way with regard to the other orders. As a result 

 of collecting extensively, exchanging a great deal, purchasing and securing 

 through friendship large amounts of material, he possesses quite a large collection 

 which is particularly rich in such families as the Carabidae, Elateridae, Bupres- 

 tidae and forest Coleoptera. While he has written far less than his friends would 

 wish, he has supplied both material and notes for many years to other workers. 

 In the future he hopes to make more personal use of his material. The subjects 

 in which he is most interested are geographical distribution and the factors 

 which influence it, certain other correlated subjects as variation, the systematic 

 study of the Carabidae, Elateridae, etc., and forest Entomology. Since 1904 

 he has been in charge of the Entomological department of the California 

 Academy of Sciences. He has been connected with the Department of Ento- 

 mology of the University of California since 1913. For many years he has 

 been prominently connected with various scientific societies and is universally 

 recognized as one of the leading Entomologists, not only of California, but of 

 the United States. 



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