16H THE entomologist's RECORD. 



France, 1857), his notes on the Volcan de Jorullo (Lausanne, 1859), 

 and on Le pic (VOrizaba (1858), his Description des mines d'line anci- 

 enne ville mejcicaine (Paris, 1858), Meinoire sur (fiielques Mainmiferes dii 

 Mc.riiiitu (Paris, 1860), and various other articles on the birds, myria- 

 poda, mammals, Crustacea, and ethnology of the country he was 

 visiting. How great must have been the fascination of so grand a 

 tour in this splendid, and then little-known, land, upon a nature so 

 receptive, so educated, and so enthusiastic. 



While in the New World, de Saussure visited the United States, 

 where he made the acquaintance of Louis Agassiz and of Henry, chief 

 of the Smithsonian Institution, and many other distinguished Ameri- 

 can naturalists. His interest in volcanoes did not die out on his return 

 to Europe in 1856, for, in the seventies, he published various notes on 

 eruptions of Vesuvius and Etna. The variety and versatility of his 

 occupations are seen in some other of his publications at this period. 

 Among those dealing with agriculture we may specially mention 

 Meiiiuire siir la inaniere d'atteler li's btrufs, which received the gold 

 medal of the Societe centrale d'Agriculture de France, and a report 

 upon the damage done to vineyards by Phijlloxei-a vafifatri.r, which 

 attracted the attention of the Federal Council, and, xiltimately, led to 

 legislation forbidding the introduction into Switzerland of foreign 

 plants, which marked the beginning of the long struggle against this 

 terrible economic pest. . At this period, he began that splendid series 

 of works on Hymenoptera and Orthoptera, which made his name so 

 famous. Of the former we may mention Xoiioelh's considerations snr 

 la niditication des f/uepes (Geneva, 1855), Etudes stir la famille de 

 respides (Paris, l85'2-57), Si/nopsis of American Wasps (Washington, 

 1875), on the Hyinenoptera of the Novara. Expedition (Vienna, 1867), 

 Melanijes hijnienopterolof/iijues (fascicules 1, 2, Geneva, 1854 and 1863), 

 A ( 'atalof/ue of the r/enas Scolia (in collaboration with Jules Sichel, 

 Paris, 1864), ())i the Scoliidae of Fedtclienko's Voijaije in Turkestan 

 (Moscow, 1880), Note snr les Masaricns (Paris, 1853), Note sur les 

 Orf/anes buccanx des Masaris (Paris, 1857), Ristoire natiirelle des Hijinen- 

 opteres de Madafiascnr (Paris, 1890). and a host of smaller papers and 

 articles. 



But it is as an orthopterist that the name of Henri de Saussure 

 will chiefly be remembered. Of his Meitioire>i jiour sercir a Vhistoire dn. 

 Me.ri(pie, des Antilles et des Etats-unis, the third part is Orthopteres 

 rAuicriipie nioi/enne (1864), and the fourth is on Mantides aniericaines 

 (1871). The Mmister of Public Instruction at Paris (1870) ordered 

 the publication of a line work, entitled Mission scientijique an Me.riqiic, 

 by de Saussure. In 1894, he described the orthoptera collected by 

 Fedtchenko in Turkestan. At intervals between 1863 and 1898 he 

 brought out the different parts (six) of Melamjes orthopteroloj/iques, 

 which form two stout quarto volumes, containing a variety of really 

 important works, chiefly on Blattidae and Mantidae, but, of especial 

 value, is the monograph of the crickets, which occupies the fifth and 

 sixth fascicules. This is to the present day the standard work on the 

 •crickets, and though very many new species have been described since, 

 no attempt has been made to supersede this monograph. 



Between 1859 and 1870 he published a number of short papers, 

 •chiefly descriptive, and m 1879, Spicile(/ia entoinoloi/ica (jenavensia, I., 

 /renre Heminierns. He proposed the establishment of a new 



