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In his earlier years he pubHshed a number of contributions on 

 chemical, physical, geological, glaciological and meteorological 

 subjects. 



His first important paper on the Orthoptera appeared in 

 1 861, entitled "Orthopterologische Studien — Beitrage zu Dar- 

 win's Theorie iiber die Entstehung der Arten." The first of the 

 remarkable series of monographic studies made by him was 

 published in 1865, "Nouveau Systeme des Blattaires," which 

 remains the basis of the modern classification of the Blatt- 

 odea. We can only call attention to the more important of his 

 papers, these being monographic studies, which have given the 

 present day student of the group the greater portion of his 

 classificatory system. In addition to these large papers quite 

 a few smaller ones appeared from his pen, the total number 

 published by him being about twenty-seven. 



In 1878, the Locustodea (Tettigoniidae of present authors) 

 were first divided by him into families and the family Phan- 

 eropteridae monographed, followed, in 1888, by a similar 

 treatment of the Stenopelmatidae and Gryllacridae, in 1891, 

 by Additamenta to the Phaneropteridae and, in 1894, by a 

 study of the Pseudophyllidae. The Acridodea received less 

 attention from him than the katydids, the only monographic 

 paper on that group published being his study of the Prosco- 

 pidae, in 1890. 



In 1882, probably his most exhaustive work appeared, the 

 "Prodromus der Europaischen Orthopteren," which Burr has 

 truly called an "encyclopaedia of the European forms," and 

 which remains, after the lapse of thirty-three years, an indis- 

 pensable requisite to the worker on Palaearctic Orthoptera. 



The rich collections of Orthoptera made in Burma by Fea 

 were placed in Brunner's hands for study, and in reporting on 

 the collection he gave to the entomological world a complete 

 "Revision du Systeme des Orthopteres." This is still the basis 

 of our classification of the order and is perhaps the most im- 

 portant single paper published by him. It is an indispensable 

 necessity in the library of the general Orthopterist, although 

 many will not agree with the treatment accorded genera of 



