 The author thus showed the great richness of the entomological fauna of the Alsace, the richest of France, after the Provence and Côte d'Azur.With the death of Jules, the work, of 800 pages, was completed by Paul Scherdlin, conservator of the Musée zoologique de l'ULP et de la ville de Strasbourg, Strasbourg.In 1885, Jules Bourgeois had a rich collection of more than 15,000 species of Palearctic Coleoptera without counting the exotic species.