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Dl'K. Leon Dufour, a French physician and comparative anatomiHt. One of the principal authori- 

 ties upon the internal stnicturo of insects. 



Dl'M. Constant Diinieril, professor to the Faculty of Medicine and to the Jardin du Roi. Au 

 eminent French naturalist and comparative anatomist ; born at Amiens, 1774. Author of many works 

 in ditl'i^rent dejiartments of natural history, among which was a work entitled General Con.-tiderations 

 upon the Class of Insects. His woiks date from 1806 to IS.'iO. 



Fit. or Ekicii.'*. William F. Erichson, of Berlin, in Prussia, lately deceased, one of the ablest writers 

 of recent times upon the Coleoptcra. His works are written in the Gorman lanjjuago. There is an- 

 other auilior of the same name, G. F. Erichson, also of Berlin, author of the genera and species of the 

 t^tapliylinidie. 



E.-iCii. Friedrich Eschscholtz, a Prussian entomoloRist. Anthor of a zoological atlas, 1829, and a 

 work entitled Eutomojriaphion. in the German languaj^e. 



Fab oiF.viiK. John Christian Fabncius. professor of natural history at Kiel, in Denmark. A pnjiil 

 of Liuiia;u.s, an<i one of tho most eminent and voluminous writers upon in.sects ; born 17-lv!. died 1607. 

 Author of many works, and the original describer of a large proportion of tho American insects known 

 at that time. 



FibCH. Gotthelf Fischer de Waldheim, director of tho imperial museum at Moscow, Knssia. Au- 

 thor of numerous works, from 1801 to 182-I. His principal work was tbeEntouiography of the Russian 

 Empire, in 2 vols., 4-to, with splendid engravings. Is20-22. 



Fitch. Asa Fitch, M. D , entomologist to the Agricultural Society of New Tork. Author of 

 thirteen annual reports upon insects of New York, chietly those injurious to agriculture. First report 

 published in I8.16. Dr. Fitch's writings have contributed greatly to the dissemination of useful iufor- 

 tion upon the injurious insects of the United States. 



FOKST. Dr. John Reinhold Forster. Authorof a description of a Hundred New Species of Insects, 

 London, 1771, among which were a fewN. American Coleoptera. 



Geoff. M. Geoflroy. a celebrated French physician and entomologist. Anthor of an Abridged 

 History of Insects, 2 vols., 8-vo, with plates, 176-4, and of a Description of the Insects in the Environs 

 of Paris. Many genera of Coleoptera were first deflned in these works. 



Glovf.k. Towuend Glover, entomologist to the Department of Agriculture, at Washington. Au- 

 thor of numerous brief monthly reports upon injurious insects, and of au extensive series of plates, 

 illustrative of North American insects in all the orders, but of which only those appertaiuing to the 

 Orthiiptera have yet been published. 



Gm. or Gkum. E. Francis Germar, professor of mineralogy at Halle, in Prussian Saxony. Editor 

 of the "Magazin der Entoniologie," 4 vols., 8-vo, 1813-21, and of the "lusectoram Species Novaj," 1 vol., 

 1824 — an accurate describer of many genera and species of Coleoptera. 



GitAV. J. L. C Gravenhorst, a German entomologist. Authorof a Monograph of tho Staphylinidee, 

 1S06, and of a Nosology of the genus Ichneumon, 1814— a standard authority upon these two families 

 of insects. 



GuKU. M. Guerin-^Ieneville, a distinguished French entomologist. Author of Species and Genera 

 of the Articulated Animals, 1843 and subsequently : and editor of the Magazine of Zoology, and of tho 

 Zoological Review. 



Gyll. L. Gyllenhal, a Swedish naturalist. An original describer of some of the genera which con- 

 tain American species. Author of '"Insecta Suecica,'" 1827. 



Halu. S. S. Hahleman, an American naturalist. Author of a large number of memoirs in various 

 branches of natural history, and original describer of many N. American Coleoptera, mostly between 

 the years 1812 and 1852. 



Hauu. Thaddeus Wra. Harris, M. D., librarian of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachu- 

 setts, a distinguished American entomologist. Authorof a Treatise .)n lusects injurious to Vegetation, 

 Ist edition lf.T2. 2nd ed. 1862, and author of many other valuable contributions to American entomology; 

 bom 1795, died 18.56. It is a matter of lasting regret that the exacting requirements of his office of 

 librarian prevented Dr. Harris from giving to the world, in a connected and systematic form, the re- 

 sults of his long and enthusiastic study of insect.s in all their orders. 



Hen rz. N. if. Htntz, profe.s.sor at Chajiel Hill University, North Carolina. Anthor of a Mono- 

 graph of the Spitters of the United States, published in the 21»t volume of the American Journal of 

 Science, 18.13, and describer of a number of N. American Coleoptera. 



Hbst. J. F. AY. Uerbst, originally a preacher at Berlin, Prussia, born 1743. A voluminous writer 

 upon insects. One work, in 10 volumes was devoted wholly to the Coleoptera, 1785 to IcOii. Another 

 of his works is a Monograph of the genus Papilio. All his works were illustrated by colored plates. 



HOFFGG. Count Hoffmansegg, a learned naturalist of Saxony, and a zealous patron of the sciences. 

 Author of various memoirs in Illiger's Magazine and elsewhere. 



