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DuF. Leon Dufour, a French physician and comparative anatomist. One of the principal authori- 

 ties npon the internal structure of insects. 



Du.M. Constant Diinieril, professor to the Faculty of Medicine and to the Jardin du Roi. An 

 eminent French naturalist and comparative anatomist ; born at Amiens, 177-1. Author of many works 

 in dift'creut departments of natural history, among which was a worli entitled General Considerations 

 upon the Class of Insects. His works date from 1806 to 1830. 



Er. or Euiciis. 'William F. Erichson, of Berlin, in Prussia, lately deceased, one of the ablest writers 

 of recent times upon the Coleoptera. His works are written in the German languase. There is an- 

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

 Staphylinidir. 



EscH. Friedrich Eschscholtz, a Prussian entomologist. Author of a zoological atlas, 1829, and a 

 "work entitled Entomographien. in the German language. 



Fab 01' F.\BR. John Christian Fabricius, professor of natural history at Kiel, in Denmark. A pupil 

 of Linnoeus, and one of the most eminent and voluminous writers upon insects ; born 1742, died 1807. 

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

 at that time. 



FiscH. Gotthelf Fischer de Waldheim, director of the imperial museum at Moscow, Russia. Au- 

 thor of numerous works, from 1801 to 1824. His principal work was the En tomography of the Russian 

 Empire, in 2 vols., 4-to, with splendid engravings. 1820-22. 



FiTCH- Asa Fitch, M. D , entomologist to the Agricultural Society of New York. Author of 

 thirteen annual reports upon insects of New York, chiefly those injurious to agriculture. First i-eport 

 published in 1856. Dr. Fitch's writings have contributed greatly to the dissemination of useful infor- 

 tion upon the injurious insects of the United States. 



FoitST. Dr. John Reiuhold Forster. Author of a description of a Hundred Kew Species of Insects, 

 London, 1771, among which were a few N. American Coleoptera 



Geoff. M. Geoffroy, a celebrated French physician and entomologist. Author of an Abridged 

 History of Insects, 2 vols., 8-vo, with plates, 1764, and of a Description of the Insects in the Environs 

 of Paris. Many genera of Coleoptera were first deflued in these works. ., 



Glover. Towneud Glover, entomologist to the Department of Agriculture, at TVashington. Au- 

 thor of numerous biief monthly reports upon injurious insects, and of an extensive series of plates, 

 illustrative of North Ameticau insects in all the orders, but of which only those appertaining to the 

 Orthiiptera have yet been published. 



Gm. or Gk.rm. E. Francis German, professor of mineralogy at Halle, in Prus.sian Saxony. Editor 

 of the "Magazin der Entomologie," 4 vols., 8-vo, 1813-21, and of the "Insectorum Species Novee," 1 vol., 

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



GuAV. J. L. C Gravenhorst, a German entomologist. Authorof a Monogra]ihof theSfaphylinidae, 

 1806, and of a Nosology of the genus Ichneumon, 1814 — a standard authority upon these two families 

 of insects. 



Guer. M. Guerin-Meneville, 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 the 

 Zoological Review. 



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

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



Hald. S. S. Haldeman, an American naturalist. Author of a large number of memoirs in various 

 branches of natural history, and original de.9criber of many N. American Coleoptera, mostly between 

 the years 1842 and 1852. 



Harr. Thaddeus Wm. Harris, M. D., librarian of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachu- 

 setts, a distinguished American entomologist. Author of a Treatise on Insects injurious to Vegetation, 

 1st edition 1852, 2nd ed. 1862, and author of many other valuable contributions to American entomology; 

 born 1795, died 1856. 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 l(mg and enthusiastic study of insects in all their orders. 



He.ntz. N. M. Hentz, professor at Chapel Hill University, North Carolina. Author of a Mono- 

 graph of the Spiders of the United States, published in the 21st volume of the American Journal of 

 Science, 1833, and describer of a number of N. American Coleoptei-a. 



Hbst. J. F. W. Herbst, 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 1800. 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. 

 Anther of various memoirs in HUger's Magazine and elsewhere. 



