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Woodward & Hill, of which firm he remained an active member 
up to the time of his death. 
On April oth, 1855, he married Miss Jane Woodward of Albany 
who survives him. He also leaves surviving him three sons and 
one daughter. Mr Hill had a common school education; but con- 
tinued his studies after entering business and was an exceedingly 
well informed man and agreeable companion. Always fond of 
outdoor life and an admirer of nature, he was an ardent fisherman — 
and of late years spent a part of each summer in the North Woods 
or in the Adirondacks — combining this sport with his study of 
nature. 
For many years he was more especially interested in botany and 
made large collections of plants. In 1875 he became more especially — 
interested in insects, and collected persistently, carefully and sys- 
tematically — with what success all Lepidopterists know. Though 
more particularly a Lepidopterist he collected also in other orders, 
to obtain a representation of local species. With Messrs Bailey, 
Lintner and Meske’ he made excursions in the vicinity of Albany 
and finally Centre [now Karner] was hit upon, as an extraordi- 
narily preductive locality and here collecting was carried on with 
such vim and persistency that the place became known as “ Butter- 
fly station.” Enormcus quantities of “sugar” were prepared and © 
used, and thousands of moths paid the penalty. During his visits 
to the Adirondacks Mr Hill not only sugared persistently, but every 
available room was lit ux and windows were left open to attract 
the unwary night flyers. In an unexplored field like the Adiron- 
cacks the result was most gratifying, and many previously unknown 
forms were discovere 1 — the types of which are all in his collection. 
With such a quantity of material, exchanging was very productive 
and the collection rapidly increased. It was his boast that he never 
bought an insect, yet the collection contains rarities from all 
sources, the products of exchanges. He was extremely systematic 
in the arrangement and care of his collection, every species bear- 
ing a number—or rather two numbers—one sex an even, the 
Other an odd) number. “Every species: was" neeistereds. and thie 
duplicates were all noted, so that it was only necessary to refer 
to the proper book and the exact number of specimens on hand 
was at once apparent. In addition to this he was very careful 
in labeling his insects, every specimen containing the exact locality, 
date of capture and whether at light or at sugar. The collection 
is therefore valuable, not only as an accumulation of material, 
but as an accumulation of facts, of great value in fixing dates, 
distribution and number of broods. The work required for all 
this was of course enormous, an‘ can be appreciated only by those 
who have attempted anything similar. 
Mr Hill was not a describer, his only contributions to the litera- 
ture being in the line of faunal lists in which dates and localities 
were carefully noted; but though not a writer, he was a careful 
