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Geoffroy, Olivier and Dejean. Further talk followed, and favor 

 brought pardon to the priest, who all his life had never hamied 

 or even spoken ill of mortal man. Pierre Antoine La- 

 Lat. treille, still a priest, became the greatest authority of his 

 time on classification. The vessel on which he was to 

 have sailed was lost in a stomi with all on board. His genus 

 based on the ham beetle was named by him, Necrobia, life from 

 the dead, a double meaning. It saved Latreille's life. It gets 

 its own life from dead animal tissue. Latreille died in the fullness of 

 years. His correspondence was large, that with Fabrieius filling 

 a whole volume of print. His American species were few, but 

 98 of his genera have American representatives. His divisions 

 into families were wider than those accepted at present, but 

 eleven of his families still stand unaltered. 



J. G. A. Forster in 1771 sailed as a scientist on Capt. Cook's 

 second voyage. Returning he became professor of nat- 

 Forst. ural history at Cassel. His American beetle types were 

 not many, but they are all well known species. A con- 

 temporary, an amateur, F. W. Herbst, superintendent 

 Hrbst. of the water works at Zurich, Switzerland, loved 

 exotic beetles. His monument, to outlive his hydrants, 

 is 5 1 American species and 1 1 genera. The burden of synonymy 

 came into existence about the time, for he, Drury and Olivier 

 were getting specimens, which were promptly named without 

 active correspondence between the namers. 



Thunb. During the last quarter of the centiiry the study 



Payk. of insects became more and more popular. Most of 

 Knoch the familiar names were directly or indirectly pupils 

 Scriba at Upsala, who drifted in to professorships all over 

 Web. Europe. Their American coleoptera were not numer- 

 Pall. ous, less than 140 being credited to the whole group. 



Goeze They taught, studied and spread loyally their pro- 

 Swed. paganda. Of this roster roll, Thunberg succeeded 

 Web. Linnaeus as professor at Upsala. Paykull was at 

 111. Upsala, Knoch at Brunswick, Panzer at Nuremberg, 



Schn. Scriba at Frankfort, Goeze at Leipsic, Swederus, 

 Hoppe Weber in Denmark; Illiger in Berlin; Schneider, Pall, 

 Ced. Hellmuth, Hoppe at Hanover; Ahrens, Brahm at 



