author not mentioned, editor W.L. Distant

“ Dr. Steenstrup was born in 1813, and had thus reached the eighty-fifth year of his life. He published much on Natural History, but he will be principally remembered by his work on the subject of "Alternation of Generations." Our best course is to quote Geddes and Thomson on this point. "The progress of marine zoology and the study of parasitic worms gave naturalists like Sars, Dalyell, Loven, Von Siebold, and Leuckart early glimpses of many alternations in life-history, but Steenstrup was the first to generalise the results. ”

“ As an entomologist he will be best remembered as an authority on the minute beetles, Trichopterygidæ, of which he described many species, and, in 1872, published his well-known 'Trichopterygia illustrata,' of which in his eightieth year he completed a second volume which is now in the publisher's hands. He was also the contributor on this group to Godman and Salvin's 'Biologia Centrali-Americana,' and joint author with the Rev. ”