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JOURNAL OF VARIATION. 
Worse ES Nodal January 15ruH, 1900. 
Brunner von Wattenwyl (with portrait). 
With this number we take great pleasure in presenting our readers 
with a portrait of this most distinguished entomologist, and, as an 
article from his pen is to follow on p. 2, the occasion seems appro- 
priate for a short appreciative note. 
Although we are here concerned only with his work as the most 
eminent orthopterist of the day, it may interest our readers to know that 
he was born at Bern, 77 years ago, and isa member of one of the oldest 
Swiss families, but migrated when still a young man to Vienna, which 
he has since made his home. A member of the Aulie Council, he has 
held a very high official position, and visited England in the year 1879, 
as representative of the Austro-Hungarian Kmpire on the occasion of 
the International Telegraph Conference held at London. 
His first important publication upon the group on which he has 
been for years the recognised authority, was Orthopterologische Studien. 
Beitraye zu Darwin's Theorie iuber die Kntstehung der Arten, in 1861. It 
was followed in the same year by ‘“‘ Disquisitiones orthopteroloyicae,” in 
which a large number of new European Orthoptera are described, and 
the genus Thamnotrizon monographed. This was one of the most 
important contributions to our knowledge of the Decticidae that had yet 
appeared. It was accompanied by eight plates, very carefully executed 
by the author, some of which are coloured, and that extremely well. 
Four years afterwards he published Nouveau Systéme des Blattaires, 
which marked the commencement of a new era in the study of 
Orthoptera. This volume has been taken as a model in all later mono- 
graphs, and the modern classification of the blattodea has been based 
upon ths system then first established. 
An importent essay, entitled Die morphologische Bedeutung der Seg- 
menter bei den Orthopteren, came out in 1876, and two years later his 
second great monograph was published. In this the large family of the 
Phaneropteridae is exhaustively treated and the Locustodea are first 
divided into a series of families. This series of treatises, which has 
done more for the systematic classification of the Orthoptera than the 
works of almost any other author, included monographs of the Steno- 
pelmatidaz and Gryllacridae (1888), Proscopidae (1890), Additamenta 
to the Phaneropteridae (1891), and Psewdophyllidae (1894). 
The Prodromus der europdischen Orthopteren (1832) is a complete 
encyclopaedia of the Huropean forms, and although our knowledge has 
