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Appendix A 
ILLS OUR TESTS, WWAUEIE UAE We aU) (COILS CAR KONG Ole: 
Ele Te DIE TEN IRUAN 
This extremely valuable addition to the State collections was 
received through the generosity of Erastus D. Hill, Carrie J. Hill 
Van Vleck and William W. Hill, heirs of the late William W.° Hill, 
who desired that the father’s work should be maintained as a 
permanent memorial of his labors in entomology. This collection, 
consisting of some 10,000 species and representing over 3000 
species, is in excellent condition. The Nymphalidae, Lycaenidae, 
Hesperidae, Sphingidae and Noctuidae are particularly well repre- 
sented. The condition of Mr Hill’s collection, and the manuscript . 
catalogue of the same, bears evidence of extreme care. 
Mr Hill published privately a List of Lepidoptera Captured dur- 
mg 1875 and 1876 in the Vicinity of Albany and in the Adirondack 
Mountains of New York as a small folder, and the late Dr J. A. 
Lintner’ gave several more extended lists with dates of the 
Lepidoptera taken by Mr Hill in the Adirondack region. 
It is most fitting in this connection that some further record be 
“given of Mr Hiull’s work and the following notice? by Dr J. B. 
Smith, now State Entomologist of New Jersey gives a sympathetic 
account of his life: 
At Elizabethtown, Essex county, N. Y., on January 28th, 1888, 
died William W. Hill of Albany, N. Y. This news will sadden all 
who in any way have known Mr Hill during his lifetime, and among 
entomologists there are few who do not know him or his work. 
Mr Hill was born September roth, 1833, at Pittsfield, Mass., but 
removed to Albany early in life, and entered the business house 
of Nathaniel Wright, dealer in saddler’s hardware, at the age of 
fifteen. At the age of twenty he became a partner in the firm of 
Nathaniel Wright & Co., and on the death of the senior member 
of the firm, the business was continued under the firm name of 
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17878 Ent. Contributions, 4:29-4 
1880 Top. Sur. Adirondack Reeve NEY “7th wept, p, 375400: 
1891 State Land Sur. Ren’t, p. 191~—220. 
27888 Smith, J. B. Entomologica NSE HAGA ING) meesi2 315-3. 0. 
