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fessor in the University. He was born June 16, 1841. His 

 researches were largely directed to the little cultivated and 

 technically difficult field of the functions of Arthropod organs 

 and of the relations of these animals to the surrounding media. 

 Some of his principal memoirs are Sur la force musculaire dcs 

 insects (1865, 1866), Recherches sur les Crtistaces d'eau douce 

 de Bclgique (1870), Recherches physico-chimigues sur les 

 ArticuUs aquatiques (1871), Qu'est-ce que I'aile d'un Insecte? 

 (1871), Recherches experimentales stir la position du centre 

 de gravite chez les insectes (1872), Recherches physico- 

 chemiques sur les articules aquatiques. II. Resistance a I'asphy- 

 xie par submersion, action du froid, action de chaleiir (1872) : 

 Recherches sur les phenonienes de la digestion ches les Insectes 

 (1874-77), ches les Myriapodes (1876), ches les Phalangides 

 (1876), ches les Arancides dipneumones (1877) ; Sur les 

 mouvements et I'innervation de I'organe central de la circulation 

 ches les animaux articules (1879) : Influence de I'eau de mer 

 sur les animaux d'eau douce et de I'eau douce sur les animaux 

 niarins (1883), Recherches experimentales sur les mouvements 

 rcspiratoires des Insectes (1884), Experiences sur le role des 

 palpes ches les Arthropodes maxiUes (1885). Recherches ex- 

 perimentales sur la vision ches les Arthropodes (1885-1889), 

 Les Myriapodes marins et la resistance des Arthropodes a res- 

 piration aerienne a la submersion (1890) ; articles on the Arach- 

 nids (1895) and Crustacea (1900) in Richet's Dictionnaire de 

 Physiologic : Les fleurs, comment attirent-ils les insects? 

 (1904).* Most of these appeared in the publications of the 

 Royal Academy of Belgium. 



At its annual meeting in December, 1910, the Entomological 

 Society of Belgium elected Prof. Plateau Honorary President. 

 This title had been conferred previously on but two persons, 

 Constantin Wesmael and Edmond de Selys Longchamps. 



* For this partial list of Prof. Plateau's writings we have drawn 

 chiefly on the bibliographies in Folsom's Entomology and v. Fiirth's 

 Vergleichende chemische Physiologie der nit'dei-en Tiere (1903). The 

 latter contains summaries of some of these papers. 



