14 HISTORICAL SKETCH 



While here he also edited the volume (in twelve numbers) 

 of the North American Entomologist, published by Reinecke, 

 Zesch and Baltz of Buffalo, a creditable publication, as among 

 its contributors were many distinguished students of ento- 

 mology. 



After leaving Buffalo he took up his residence abroad, 

 living at Bremen and later at Hildesheim in Hanover where at 

 the time of his death September 12, 1903, he was director of 

 the Roemer Museum. The American Entomologist (November 

 1903) says of him "He was an authority on the entomological 

 fauna of Western New York State, particularly the region about 

 Buffalo, but will be best remembered for his systematic work on 

 North American Noctuidae. He described numerous species 

 of Lepidoptera, aggregating over a thousand. His work made 

 a great impression on our literature of the subject and was 

 painstaking and accurate. His descriptions are good and his 

 species well known. He will undoubtedly, be classed as one of 

 the greatest students of American Lepidopterology. His cat- 

 alogues were most valuable and universally used." 



A still greater loss befell the Society when, on the 13th 

 day of January, 1882, Hon. George W. Clinton, who had bgen 

 its President for more than twenty years tendered his resigna- 

 tion, as he was about to take up his residence in Albany to 

 enter the service of the State as the editor of the Clinton Papers. 

 In all these years of faithful loving service, the Buffalo Society 

 of Natural Sciences had become to him as his own child and he 

 had become endeared to its members with a peculiar affection. 

 The success of the Society has been largely due to his spirit 

 and his labors. One who remembers those days writes of them, 

 "I look backward and I see a long table in the assembly room 

 and a kind looking, gaunt old man, with fine rugged features 

 and pale blue eyes is resting his hands upon the table before 

 him and talking to a lot of attentive disciples. He has presided 

 that day over the Superior Court, now, like him, alas, no more, 

 and has ruled upon exceptions and allowed or disallowed them 

 in some important law suit, and now he has turned his back 

 upon the dry dust of the law and is talking to his auditors about 

 the fauna and flora of this end of the State, and all pay reverence 

 to the Chief Judge who is deep in philosophy and nature- study 

 and loves things as they are and not as the wills and caprices 

 and imaginations of men would make them out to be." 



