An Illustrated Essay on the Noctuidæ of North America; With "A Colony of Butterflies"
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Rip Van Winkle: A Sun Myth, And Other Poems
Augustus Radcliffe Grote
K. Paul, Trench & Co., 1882
Poetry; American; General; Poetry / American / General; Poetry / Anthologies
The North American Entomologist, Vol. 1: With Plates; July, 1879, to June, 1880 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The North American Entomologist, Vol. 1: With Plates; July, 1879, to June, 1880
In the smaller specimen, there is a faint and perhaps illusive appearance of a lateral prothoracic tubercle, which is produced mainly by the projection of hairs.
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Genesis I-II: An Essay on the Bible Narrative of Creation (Classic Reprint)
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Something similar is stated by Sale to have occurred with the Koran. The want of vowels in the Arabic character writing made Readers absolutely nec essary. The differences in reading between these Readers occasioned varia tions in the later copies of the Koran, as they came to be written with vowels.
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Check List of the Noctuidae of America, North of Mexico, Parts 1-2
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Genesis I-Ii: An Essay On the Bible Narrative of Creation
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New Check List of North American Moths (Classic Reprint)
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Scribing. But now we have such excellent means for taking these tiny lives without lengthy suffering, that Entomology is relieved Of much Of the Odium that has properly clung to the study. Of most Lepidoptera the life in the perfect stage is brief, even when not invaded by birds and rodents. Entomol ogists kill a very minute proportion Of the swarms Of insect life, but they owe it to themselves to take their share humanely.
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Augustus Radcliffe Grote was a British entomologist who worked mainly in America. He discovered various butterflies and moths in North America.
Background
Augustus Radcliffe Grote was born at Aigburth, a suburb of Liverpool, England February 7, 1841. His father was German by birth and a descendant of Hugo Grotius. His mother was English, a daughter of the Welsh ironmaster Augustus Radcliffe. Grote’s parents emigrated to America in 1846 and settled on Staten Island, where they bought a large farm and where his father became interested in real estate and in the building of the Staten Island Railway.
Education
The commercial panic of 1857 destroyed the financial prospects of the family, and Augustus, who had been preparing for Harvard College, was obliged for a time to abandon college work.
Later he went to Europe and completed his education on the Continent.
He was a born naturalist and began to collect specimens as a boy.
Career
At the age of twenty-one Augustus Radcliffe Grote published his first papers, on new species of Noctuidae, in the Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences and of the Entomological Society of Philadelphia. From that time until his death he published extensively.
While traveling in the Southern states, he became interested in the cotton caterpillar and wrote and lectured about this species. He urged the government to make an appropriation to investigate the causes of the ravages of the insect, without success, though subsequent appropriations were made for the purpose.
In 1873 Grote went to Buffalo, New York, and became curator of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences. In the bulletins of this society he published many articles and in 1879 began the publication of the North American Entomologist, which ceased publication after its first volume. In 1878 he was vice-president and chairman of Section B of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and delivered an address, “Scientific Education, ” at the St. Louis meeting of that year.
In 1884 he returned to Europe and spent the remainder of his life in Bremen and in Hildesheim, the last nine years in the latter place, where he held the position of honorary assistant in the Römer Museum. During these years abroad he was a frequent contributor to American publications and published numerous essays both in English and German, some of them dealing with abstruse philosophical he joined the whites, and in February 1876, at Fort Laramie, engaged with General George Crook as a scout.
He served throughout the campaign, taking an active part in the battles of Powder River (March 17), the Rosebud (June 17), the exceptionally hazardous scouting expedition of Lieut. F. W. Sibley (July), and the engagement at Slim Buttes (September 11). His part in the crisis that resulted in the killing of Crazy Horse at Camp Robinson, September 5, 1877, has been censured as a misrepresentation of the chief’s purposes, but his published account asserts that Crazy Horse had planned a massacre of the whites.
After the Sioux war he continued as a government scout, stationed usually at Fort McKinney, Wyoming. During the Messiah craze of 1890-1891 he was attached to the Pine Ridge agency and rendered valuable service in reporting the progress of the ferment among the Sioux.
In the spring of 1891 he returned to Fort McKinney. Three years later he told his life-story —a tale in which fact is liberally intermixed with highly wrought fiction—to a journalist, who published it in book form. His last ten years were spent in or about St. Joseph, Missouri, where he died.
Among his fellow scouts Grouard was treated with some aloofness, his residence among the Sioux prompting the fear that he was secretly aiding the hostiles.
Crook, however, trusted him wholly and praised his work in high terms. Bourke regarded him as an exceptional woodsman, and Finerty, the war correspondent, asserted that he deserved to take rank among the foremost of scouts and plainsmen.
His published entomological bibliography includes 201 titles.
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Personality
Augustus Radcliffe Grote was a man of vivid personality. Augustus Radcliffe Grote was an accomplished musician, was organist of one of the Episcopal churches in Buffalo, and composed many pieces of music. He is also said to have attempted the composition of two operas which were never completed.
Connections
Augustus Radcliffe Grote was twice married. His first wife, whom he married in 1880, died in 1883. His second wife, Minna Ruyter, whom he married in Germany, survived him.