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CATALOGUE OF AUTHORS. 
HOPE. Rev. F. W. Hope, an English entomologist, possessor of a fine cabinet of insects. Author 
of the Coleopfcorist’s Manual, 1837. Most of his original descriptions are in the family of Lamellicorn 
beetles. 
Horn. George H. Horn, M. D., of Philadelphia. Author of a Revision of the Tenobrloukho of 
America, north of Mexico, 1870, and of Synopses of the Historid.e and Bruchida) of the U. S., 1873, and 
other memoirs upon N. American Coleoptera. 
Ilug. I. C. G. Illiger, professor at Berlin, an eminent naturalist, second only to Limnens in the 
felicity and elegance of his nomenclature. Though he died in middle life, his works extonded to 13 
vols., 8-vo, embracing all departments of natural history. His most extensive work is his Magazine of 
Entomology, in 7 vols., 8*vo, 1801*1807 
Klltn. Rev. "Win. Kirby, rector of Barham, England, an eminent English entomologist. Author of 
various works upon different orders of insects. His most important work was an Introduction to En- 
tomology, in 4 vols., 8-vo., by Win. Kirby and Wm. Spence, 1st edition in 1815. This was for many 
years the principal elementary work upon insects in the English language. Mr. Kirby was also author 
of that part of the Fauna Boreali-Aiuericana which treats of insects, 1vol., 4-to, 1837, in which many 
N. American insects, chiefly Coleoptera, are described. 
Knocii. A. G. Knoch, a German entomologist. Author of the Neue Beitraogo zur Insectenkunde, 
1 vol., 8-vo, 1801. 
Lacord. Theodoro Lacordaire, professor of zoology and comparative anatomy in the University of 
Liege, .and chevalier of the Order of Leopold. A very eminont French naturalist and entomologist, 
recently deceased. His works extend over a period of upwards of forty years, among which was an 
Introduction to Entomology, published as a part of the Suites a Button, 2 vols., 8-vo, 1834-38. But the 
crowning work of his life was the Genera des Coleopteres, in 10 vols., 8-vo, the last volume of which 
was not completed at the time of the author’s death, on the 18th of July, 1870. 
Lap. M. de LaFerte-Senecterro, a French entomologist. Author of an elaborate monograph of 
Anthicus and allied genera, 1848. 
Lai*. F. L. de Laporte, a French entomologist. Author of Etudes Entomologiques, 1835, and othor 
works ; original describer of a number of genera and species of N. A. Coleoptera. 
Lat. or Latk. Pierre Andre Latreille, professor of the museum of natural history, in Paris ; born 
at Brives, Franco, in 1762. A very eminent French naturalist, sometimes styled the prince of entomo- 
logists. The genius of this celebrated author illuminated every department of the science of entomo- 
logy* embracing all the classes of articulated animals. His labors extended through a period of about 
thirty years. The first of bis numerous publications bears the date of 1800. His three principal works 
are : a Natural History of Crustacea aud Insects, 6 vols., 8-vo, 1802-5 ; Genera of Crustacea and Insects, 
4 vols., 8-vo, 1806-7 ; and the department of Crustacea, Araclinida and Inseots, in Cuvier’s Animal King- 
dom, 2d edit., 1828. 
Leach. W. E. Leach, an English physician and naturalist, one of the curators of the British mu- 
seum. Author of numerous memoirs upon all the classes of the Articulata, and editor of the Zoological 
Miscellany, 3 vols., 8-vo, 1817. 
LeC. John L. LeConte, M. D., of Philadelphia— the principal American authority upon North- 
American Coleoptora. Author of a classification of the Coleoptera of North America, 1 vol. 8vo. 
1861-1873 ; and of many articles upon the different families of Coleoptera, from 1844 to the present 
time ; aud original describer of a large proportion of the North American species in this ordor of in 
sects. Dr. LeConte’s father, Major John LeConte, was also a zealous entomologist, joint author with 
Boisduval of a General History of North American Lepidoptera aud'their Caterpillars, of which but 
one volume was published, in Paris, 1833 ; and author of a monograph of North American Histeridm, 
in the Boston Journal of Natural History, 1845. 
Linn. Charles de Linne, usually written in the Latinized form of Linnajus. Professor of Natural 
History at Upsal, in Sweden. Born in 1707, died 1778. One of the most eminent of naturalists, and 
founder of the modern system of nomenclature, both in Natural History and Botany. His name is 
stamped upon almost everj' page in the nomenclature of plants and of every department of animated 
nature. Ho was the author of nineteen distinct works, the principal of which were the “Species 
Plantarum,” and the “Systeina Naturae.” First edition 1735; 13th edit. 7 vols 8vo. 1788. 
MacL. W. S. MacLeay, an English entomologist, a learned and philosophical writer upon in- 
sects and their classification. Author of the Horae Entomologies, 1 vol. 8vo. 1819, and other works. 
Mann. C. G. Mannerheim, Counsellor to the Emperor of Russia. Author of a monograph ol the 
Encouemida), 1823, and of a New Classification of the Staphylinida?, 1830, and of several memoirs in 
the Bulletin of the Imperial Society of Naturalists of Moscow, in which species from Sitka and Cali- 
fornia are described, 1843-46. 
Mars. S. A. de Marseul, a French Entomologist. Author of an elaborate monograph of the Histe- 
ridae, 1853-1860; and of a catalogue of the Coleoptera of Europe, 1866. 
