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fessor in the University. He was born June 16, 1841. His 

 researches were largely directed to the little cultivated and 

 technically difficult field of the functions of Arthropod organs 

 and of the relations of these animals to the surrounding media. 

 Some of his principal memoirs are Snr la force musculaire dcs 

 insects (1865, 1866), Recherches sur les Crustaces d'eau douce 

 de Belgique (1870), Recherches physico-chimiques sur les 

 ArticuUs aquatiqiies (1871), Qu'cst-ce que I'aile d'un Insecte? 

 (1871), Recherches expcrimcntales sur la position du centre 

 de gravitc chez les insectes (1872), Recherches physico- 

 chemiques sur les articulcs aquatiqiies. II. Resistance a I'asphy- 

 xie par submersion, action du froid, action de chaleur (1872) ; 

 Recherches sur les phcnomenes de la digestion chez les Insectes 

 (1874-77), chcz les Myriapodes (1876), ches les Phalangidcs 

 (1876), chcz les Araneides dipneurnones (1877) ; Sur les 

 moui'ements et I'innervation de I'organe central de la circulation 

 chcs les animdux articules (1879) ; Influence de I'cau de mcr 

 sur les aniniaux d'eau douce et de I'eau douce sur les aniniaux 

 niarins (1883), Recherches expcrimentales sur les inouvcments 

 respiratoires des Insectes (1884), Experiences sur le role dcs 

 palpcs chcz les Arthropodes maxilles (1885), Recherches cx- 

 pcriincntalcs sur la vision ches les Arthropodes (1885-1889), 

 Les Myriapodes niarins et la resistance dcs Arthropodes a res- 

 piration aericnne a la submersion (1890) ; articles on the Arach- 

 nids (1895) and Crustacea (1900) in Richet's Dictionnaire de 

 Physiologic; Les flcurs, comment attirent-ils les insects? 

 (1904).* Most of these appeared in the publications of the 

 Royal Academy of Belgium. 



At its annual meeting in December, 1910, the Entomological 

 Society of Belgium elected Prof. Plateau Honorary President. 

 This title had been conferred previously on but two persons, 

 Constantin Wesmael and Edmond de Selys Longchamps. 



* For this partial list of Prof. Plateau's writings we have drawn 

 chiefly on the bibliographies in Folsom's Entomology and v. Fiirth's 

 Vergleichende chetnische Physiologic der niederen Ticre (1903). The 

 latter contains summaries of some of these papers. 



