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FAUNA OF BURIED BODIES. 
Before Burial. 
After Burial. 
(The genera marked * in the table are those 
met with by ourselves.) 
( D ) Calliphora ,* Cyrtoneura. 
(D) Ophyra,* Phora. 
(C) Philonthus ,* Rhizophagus. 
(T) Achorutes, Templetonia. 
References to Some of the Literature on this Subject. 
1783.—Recueil de pieces concernant les exhumations faites dans l’anciente de 
l’Eglise de St. Eloi de la ville Dunkerque. 
1789.—Thouret, Rapport sur les exhumations du cimitiere des Innocens Fourcroy, 
a la Societe royale de medecine de Paris. 
1815.—Marc, Diet. d. Sc. Med. Paris, XIV, 186-206. 
1823.—Orfila, Rev. Med. Franc, et Etranger, Paris, XII, 143-150. 
1825.—Orfila, Arch. gen. de. Med. Paris, VII, 281-286. 
1830. —Orfila, Ann. d’Hyg. Paris, IV, 80-165. 
1831. —Orfila and Lesueur, Traite des exhumations juridiques, Paris, 2v. 
1845.—Barrett (Thos.), Lancet, Lond. II, 425-428. 
1881.—Reinhard (H.), Verh. Zool. bot. Ges. Wien, 31, p. 207-210. 
1886. —Hofman (O.), Bull. Soc. Ent. Belgique, XXX, p. CXXXI. 
1887. —Karsch, Entomolog. Nachricht. Berlin, December, 1887.—P. 382. 
1890.—Webster (F. M.), Insect Life, V, 11 pp., 356-358, 370-372. 
1892.—Bordas (F.), Etude sur la putrefaction. Paris, Rueff et Cie. 
1894. —Megnin (P.), La Fauna des Cadavres. Paris, G. Masson, Gauthier, etc. 
1895. —Schoyen (W. M.), Entomologisk Tidskrift, Stockholm, p. 121-124. 
1895.—Dominique (J-), Bui. de la Soc. des Sc. de l’ouest de la Fr. Tome V, p. 
217-226. 
1895.—Muller (C.), Zoolog. Garten, V, 36, pp. 271-275. 
1895. —von Ileyden (L.), Zoolog. Garten, V, 36, pp. 380-381. 
1S95.—Schiner, Fauna Austriaca, Die Fliegen, I, 620. 
1896. —Megnin (P.), Bui. du Mus. d’Hist. Nat. Paris, pp. 187-190. 
1897. —Johnston (Wyatt), and Villeneuve (Geo.). Montreal Medical Journal, 
August. 
EXPLANATION OF TABLES. 
Table i. Showing entire “find” on human cadavers buried for varying periods. 
In the first column are given the serial numbers, with numbers referring to notes on 
individual observations. Next is indicated the duration of interment, expressed in years 
and months; then the month in which interment was made and that in which the body 
was disinterred. Then follow the depth of the grave and character of soil— “s ” = 
sandy, “ c ” = clay, and “ sc ” = sand and clay mixed. The degree of moisture, 
noted in the grave at the time of disinterment, is indicated as follows : I = dry, 2 
= moist, 3= wet, 4 = coffin submerged. The figures in the body of the table indi¬ 
cate the number of the specimen or specimens, in the Stiles-Motter collection of 
grave-fauna, to be deposited in the U. S. National Museum. Some of these speci¬ 
mens, more particularly of the lower forms, have not as yet been fully determined. 
*(D) Diptera, (C) Coleoptera, (L) Lepidoptera, (A) Acari, (T) Thysanura. 
