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order for this anomalous insect, but it is now known that he was 

 misled by a faulty preparation. The continuation of his series was 

 II., Tribu (les Patupkaniem (1887), w^hich was followed by a series of 

 similar monographs of some of the more restricted families of the 

 Orthoptera : Prodroinus (Edipodioruin. (1884), and the Additaiiienta 

 thereto, four years later, deal with the (Edipodidae of the world, then 

 SynopsiK de la tribii <lf>i Saifii'us (1888), shortly followed by a Xot/' 

 sujiplrmeutairc, and then revisions of several families of cockroaches, the 

 Pancathidat' and Kpilainpridac in 1895, the Peiisphat'iidae in the same 

 year, in collaboration with Leo Zehntner, who also assisted him in the 

 great work in the lirst volume on Orthoptera in the Bioloi/ia Centiali- 

 Awrricana, on the JUattidae and Mantidac, and an analogous work on 

 Rlattidae and Mantidac of Madagascar, in Grandidier's great publica- 

 tion. In collaboration with Alphonse Pictet he produced a Catalojiue 

 d'Arridieiis (1887), Icoiunirapliir dcs Sautrrdles vertes (1892). His 

 smaller brochures and pamphlets were very numerous, and it is not 

 necessary to mention them all. 



The question of the origin of mankind particularly appealed to this 

 all round naturalist, and he formed a very valuable ethnological and 

 arch^eological collection, which he presented, with his usual generosity, 

 to the Geneva Museum. In 1868, he explored the cave of See, near 

 Villeneuve, where, with scrupulous organisation, he discovered traces 

 of human habitation contemporaiy with the reindeer. 



In 1858, in company with six friends, he founded the Geographical 

 Society of Geneva, of which he was President in 1888-1889. He 

 represented the Society at the international congresses held at Paris in 

 1875 and in 1889. Prom 1857 until the appointment of the Director, 

 Professor Bedot, de Saussure was a member of the committee which 

 managed the Natural History Museum of Geneva. Colleagues of his 

 were his old professor, F. J, Pictet, Dr. Brot, and de Loriol-le-Fort. 

 He threw^ himself with characteristic enthusiasm into the task of 

 arranging and organising the collections. In spite of advancing ao-e 

 and decreasing strength, he worked with regularity at the herculean 

 task of naming and classifying the Orthoptera of the museum, while, 

 at his villa at Genthod, he organised his collection of Hymenoptera, 

 which he presented to the town last summer. His work at the 

 Orthoptera, for the benefit of the museum, was enormously to increase 

 the value and the comprehensiveness of the collections, to which he 

 added the splendid specialist library which he had accumulated during 

 his many long years of assiduous work. 



In 1897, he was presented with an address and artistic souvenir, 

 on behalf of the municipal authorities, in recognition of his forty 

 years' service at the museum of his native town. Honours were 

 showered upon him by the leading scientific institutions of the world ; 

 he was elected an Honorary Fellow of our Entomological Society of 

 London, in 1872. 



In addition to the loss to science in general, there are very many 

 who feel a personal loss in the death of Henri de Saussure. Those 

 who knew him were fascinated with the unfathomable depth, as well 

 as by the variety, of his knowledge and reading, as also by the 

 brilliance and wit of his conversation. Many who had never had the 

 privilege of personally meeting him, knew him as a charming and 

 courteous correspondent. His colleagues, howevei- humble, he was 



