BUFFALO SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCES II 



request was generously presented to him by vote of the Society 

 when he left Buffalo in 1880. This collection was afterwards 

 purchased by the British Museum which was eager to acquire 

 it. In that custody it now remains, a memento of one part 

 of the Buffalo Society's work in the advancement of Science. 

 Some idea of its worth and of the thoroughness of Mr. Grote's 

 scientific work may be shown in the fact that of the 1330 species 

 in Grote's check list of North American Noctuidae, the collec- 

 tion included 1068 species and 2355 specimens of which 505 were 

 type specimens. 



These early days of Clinton and Day and Reinecke and 

 Linden and Grote, and their associates had grown into busy 

 active years of intellectual growth for the Society and under 

 such guidance it had crept into the front rank among scientific 

 organizations. At every meeting papers of great interest were 

 read, covering the scientific subjects which were then enlisting 

 the attention of the world. 



In 1873 the Society began its publications, its first issue 

 being Vol. I, Part I, comprising four important entomological 

 papers by A. R. Grote. The four parts that make up the first 

 volume were issued by March 1874, and contained no less than 

 16 scientific articles by Mr. Grote, with other valuable original 

 papers by Peck, Willey, Morison, Scudder, Hartt, Rathbun, 

 Harvey and Le Conte. From that -time onward, the Society 

 has continued its publications, embracing in them much impor- 

 tant original material by distinguished scientific writers, thirty- 

 four of the articles coming from the pen of A. R. Grote and 

 including also the valuable botanical check lists compiled by 

 David F. Day from personal observations made by Judge 

 Clinton and himself, illustrated descriptions of the rare water 

 lime fossils of this vicinity and many others of great worth. 

 The Society's published bulletins are exchanged with Scientific 

 Societies throughout the world, those of later years including 

 the "Geology and Palaeontology of Eighteen Mile Creek" by 

 A. W. Grabau, an exhaustive study, profusely illustrated and 

 of high value, as is the later volume by the same author, a 

 "Guide to the Geology and Palaeontology of Niagara Falls and 

 Vicinity". 



The Society of Natural Sciences was perhaps the first of 

 Buffalo's institutions to bring an important convention within 

 our city's gates. 



