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Article: Grote, Augustus Radcliffe
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Grote, Augustus Radcliffe
(
b
. Aigburth, near Liverpool, England, 7 February 1841;
d
. Hildesheim, Germany, 12 September 1903)
entomology
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Grote was the son of Friedrich Rudolf Grote, a German from Danzig, and Anna Radcliffe, daughter of a Welsh ironmaster. As a youth he immigrated to Staten Island, New York, where his parents had purchased a farm. Grote
’
s formal education was interrupted by the panic of 1857, and although by his own account he continued his studies on the Continent, the only degree he is known to have taken was the honorary M.A. conferred in 1874 by Lafayette College in Pennsylvania.
Grote
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s first papers on the Lepidoptera were published in 1862, and he ...