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BURMEISTER (Dr. Hermann). A ynung Prussian 

 entomologist of the highest promise. His works ex- 

 hibit profound erudition, an admirable ingenuity and 

 correctness in the anatomical details, and the greatest 

 carefulness in the elaboration of his materials. He 

 has published various memoirs of great merit ; but 

 is best known by his Handbuch der Eutomologie, or 

 Manual of Entomology, a very useful introductory 

 woik, in which a great quantity of materials, scat- 

 tered over numerous miscellaneous works, is brought 

 together, and admirably digested. We have already 

 alluded to the translation of the first volume of this 

 work, by Mr. Shuckard. The second volume treats 

 upon the descriptive portion of the Hemiptera and 

 Homoptera, 



CRAMER. A Dutch author, distinguished for his 

 beautiful work, in quarto, upon exotic butterflies, in 

 five volumes ; commenced in 1779. 



CURTIS (John). An English entomologist, and 

 author of British Entomology, or Illustrations and 

 Descriptions of the Genera of Insects found in Great 

 Britain and Ireland ; the most elegant periodical 

 work hitherto published. Each genus is illustrated 

 by a coloured figure of one of the species, and with 

 the details of the mouth and antennae. A figure of a 

 plant is added, upon which, in many cases, the insect 

 is found. 



CUVIER (George Leopold Christian Frederick Da- 

 gobert, Baron). The greatest zoologist of modern 

 days; born in J769, in Alsatia ; died at Paris, in 

 1832. In his Traite Elementaire, and Anatomie 

 Comparee, he carefully investigated the comparative 

 structures of the annulose animals, and separated the 

 Crustacea as a class from insects. In his celebrated 

 work, Le Regne Animal (The Animal Kingdom), 

 the details of the entomological portion were exe- 

 cuted by Latreille. 



DE GEER (Charles. Baron). A Swedish natu- 

 ralist; born in 1720; known by his admirable Me- 

 moires pour servir a 1'Histoire des Insectes ; a work 

 in seven quarto volumes, with .: grat number of 

 plates, in which the most ample details of the struc- 

 ture and metamorphoses of a vast number of species 

 are given. Mac Leay calls him the prince of entomo- 

 logical authors. 



DEJEAN (M. Le Comte). A French entomologist 

 and the possessor of one of the most extensive collec- 

 tions of Coleoptera ever yet made. He has published 

 I. a catalogue of his Coleoptera (the second edition is 

 now in course of publication) ; 2. a description of the 

 species of predaceous land beetles (CwindelidcB anc 

 Carabidee), in six octavo volumes, and (in conjunction 

 with M. Boisduval) a description of European beetles 

 now in course of publication. 



DUFOUR (Mons. Leon). A French author, stil 

 living ; distinguished for the great extent of his ana- 

 tomical investigations upon insects, illustrated by 

 figures drawn by himself. They are published in 

 numerous foreign periodicals, especially in the An- 

 nales des Sciences Naturelles. 



ESENBECK (Dr. Nees Von). Professor of natura 

 history at Breslaw ; author of various memoirs upon 

 the minute parasitic Hymenoptera ; of which his re- 

 cently published " Hymenopterorum Monographiae ' 

 are the most valuable. 



FABRICIUS (Johann Christian). A German ento- 

 mologist, pupil of Linnaeus, and professor at Kiel in 

 Holstein; born 1747; died, 3rd of May, 1810, age( 

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f>3 *, especially dretingnished as the founder of the 

 Oibarian mode of distribution of insects (established 

 upon the structure of the mouth) ; but more deservedly 

 nown and cited as a most extensive describer of 

 species of insects. His chief works are Entomologia 

 Systematica, in four vols., 8vo., commenced in 1 794, 

 and in which those species of all orders with which 

 Fabricius had become acquainted in his numerous 

 oyages, are described. He visited England several 

 imes, and was on terms of friendly intercourse with 

 Sir Joseph Banks, c. Subsequently he published as 

 listinct works the Systema Eleutheratorum (Coleo- 

 ptera); Antliatorum (Diptcra); Piezatorum (Hymcno- 

 pterti), and Rhyngotorum (Hemiptera, Homoptera}. 



FALLEN. A Swedish entomologist, chiefly distin- 

 guished by his works, entitled Diptera Suecise, and 

 Hemiptera Sueciae, &c. ; in which the species of these 

 and some other orders found in Sweden are carefully 

 described. 



GEOFFROY. A French author, contemporary with 

 Linnaeus ; especially remembered on account of his 

 introduction of the variations in the number of tarsal 

 joints, as affording sectional groups in the order 

 Coleoptera. His chief work is entitled " Histoire 

 abregee des Insectes," &c. Paris, 1764, 2 vols., 4t.o. 

 GRAVEN HORST (Dr. J. L. C.). Professor of Na- 

 tural History at Breslaw, author of various works 

 upon the Brachelytra (Staphy/inidtf), and also upon 

 the Ichneumonidae. Ichneumonologia Europaea, in 

 three large octavo volumes, is his most valuable 

 work. 



GCERIN (Mons. F. E.). A French naturalist and 

 artist, author of numerous detached Entomological 

 Memoirs, with beautiful illustrations ; but. especially dis- 

 tinguished by his Iconographie du Regne Animal, in 

 which types of all the leading genera of animals are 

 figured, with an infinity of details of structure. 



GYLLENHAL (Leonard). Author of a very valua- 

 ble work in four volumes, octavo, entitled Insecta 

 Sueciae ; but comprising only the beetles found in 

 Sweden. His descriptions are admirable. 



HAWORTH (Adrian Hardy). An English ento- 

 mologist, founder of the old Entomological Society, 

 and author of Lepidoptera Britannica, a work con- 

 sisting of careful descriptions of all. the species of 

 lepidopterous insects with which the author was 

 acquainted. Died in 1834. 



HUBER, F. A Swiss entomologist, distinguished 

 for his interesting series of Observations upon the 

 Economy of the Bees. 



HUBER, P. Equally distinguished with his father 

 for his extensive series of Observations upon the 

 Economy of the Ants. His Memoirs have been trans- 

 lated into English. 



HUBNER. A German entomologist, author of a 

 valuable work containing figures and descriptions 

 of European Lepidoptera, (Der Sammliig Europais- 

 cher Schmetterlinge), in quarto. 



JURINE (Louis). A Swiss entomologist, author of 

 a valuable work upon the Hymenoptera, in which the 

 structure of the veins of the wings was employed to 

 characterise the genera, entitled Nouvelle Methode 

 de classer les Hymenopteres et les Dipteres. Vol. 1, 

 Hymenopteres. Geneva, 1807, quarto. 



There is some confusion in entomological works as to thes e 

 dates. Those given above are derived from information given 

 to the writer hereof by Dr. Fabricius of Kiel, son of the ento- 

 mologist. 



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