for his theory of evolution through natural selection, Darwin was also a keen entomologist. Leander Czerny was born. The Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard founded by Louis Agassiz. The Entomological Society of Philadelphia was established. In 1867, it was renamed the American Entomological Society, the earliest national organization in the biological sciences in the United States of America. Pierre Millière commenced ; not completed until 1874. His collections of macrolepidoptera and Pyralidae are in Palais Coburg in Vienna. There are some of his microlepidoptera in the Natural History Museum, Leiden, but the bulk of his Microlepidoptera collection is in the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris. The Russian Entomological Society is founded with Academician K.M. Baer as the first president. Ottmar Hofmann gives an inaugural dissertation, . Charles Théophile Bruand d'Uzelle publishes Coleophora in . 1860 John Curtis Farm Insects being the natural history and economy of the insects injurious to the field crops of Great Britain and Ireland with suggestions for their destruction Glasgow, Blackie. Seminal work on economic entomology. Giovanni Passerini's , published at Parma Theodor Becker born. Franz Xaver Fieber 1861 John Lawrence LeConte Classification of the Coleoptera of North America published. LeConte was the most important American entomologist of the century. Otto Staudinger and Maximilian Ferdinand Wocke Carl Gustav Carus . Wien: Braunmüller. Important science philosophical work. Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte. . . commenced. 13 parts completed 1883. Seminal work on larvae of Coleoptera. Museum Godeffroy opened in Hamburg. 1863 Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Berge Third edition of this 194-page popular classic work with 49 hand-coloured plates. Berge also wrote (1841). This work became an enduring classic. William Forsell Kirby used its 61 plates for his 1889 European butterflies and moths. It was as B. J. Rebel's edition of Berge's still a bestseller in 1949 and is now available as a CD. Entomological Society of Canada founded. Sylvain Auguste de Marseul A. Deyrolle, Paris., published. 1864 Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe Longicornia Malayana; or a descriptive catalogue of the species of the three longicorn families Lamiidae, Cerambycidae and Prionidae collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the Malay Archipelago. Transactions of the Entomological Society of London commenced. This work was finished in 1869 Alexander Walker Scott, 1864-6 Australian Lepidoptera with their Transformations. A beautifully illustrated (by Harriet and Helena Scott) seminal work of Australian entomology. First appearance of the Entomologist's Monthly Magazine in England together with the reappearance