Lee Herman, the fourth AMNH curator of Coleoptera, was hired to study staphylinids and care for the collection of beetles. When Herman arrived the staphylinid collection consisted of 55 drawers of specimens; to date we have over 900. Herman published a series of long articles on Bledius and shorter ones on other genera. Most of his efforts in recent years have gone to a catalog of the Staphylinidae and revisions of various genera of the Paederinae. He is now working toward completion of a generic revision of the Paederinae.