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of entomology, and in glancing through Hagen's Bibliotheca it 

 is seen that a large proportion of the important names in the 

 science fall within these limits. The list of the chief writers of 

 this period is herewith presented, arranged chronologically : 



Important i gift- Century Writers. 

 (Born between 1790 and 1815.*) 



Straus-Duerkheim 1790-1865. 

 Stephens. 1792-1852. 

 Eschscholtz. 1793-1831. 

 Passerini. 1793-1857. 

 Macquart. (i794)-i855- 

 MacJLeay. (1794) -1865. 

 Harris. 1795-1856. 

 Kollar. 1797-1860. 

 Mulsant. 1797-1880. 

 Audouin. 1797-1841. 

 Mannerheim. (i798)-i854- 

 Curtis. (i798)-i862. 

 Desvoidy. 1799-1857. 

 Gue*rin-Meneville. 1799-1874. 

 Herrich-Schaeffer. 1799-1874. 

 Boisduval. 1799-1879. 

 Gene. 1800-1847. 

 Lacordaire. 1801-1870. 

 Ratzeburg. 1801- 1871. 

 Newman. 1801-1876. 

 Aube". 1802-1869. 

 Newport. 1803-1854. 

 Morris. 1803-1879. 

 Kirchner. (i8o3)-i879- 

 Laporte. (1803)- 

 von Siebold. 1804-1884. 

 Smith, F. 1805-1879. 



West wood. 1805-1893. 

 Lucas. (1805)- 

 Dahlbom. 1806-1859. 

 Hope. (i8o6)-i862. 

 Chevrolat. (i8o6)-i885. 

 Duncan. (1807)- 

 Agassiz. 1807-1873. 

 Loew. 1807-1879. 

 Burmeister. 1807-1892. 

 Walsh. 1808-1869. 

 Wesmael. (1808)- 1879. 

 Ferris. 1808-1878. 

 Guene"e. 1808-1880. 

 Zeller. 1808-1883. 

 Schuckard. (1809)- 

 Motschulsky. (1809)-! 871. 

 Walker. 1809-1874. 

 Brulle". 1809- 

 Fitch. 1809-1879. 

 Darwin. 1809-1882. 

 Doubleday. 1810-1849. 

 Waterhouse. 1810-1888. 

 Schioedte. (181 0-1884. 

 Murray. 1812-1878. 

 Haldeman. 1812-1880. 

 Glover. 1813-1883. 

 Costa. (1813)- 

 LeBaron. 1814-1876. 



Hartig. 1805-1880. 



While this list includes the name of Darwin, who was born in 

 the same year with Fitch and only two or three years later than 

 Westwood, Agassiz and Burmeister, Darwin's epoch-making 

 work, the " Origin of Species," appeared too late in his life 

 (1868-9) to exert much influence on many of the writers listed. 



* Where date of birth is unknown it is estimated provisionally about 25 

 years earlier than first writing and inclosed in brackets. 



