Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Strauss-Durckheim, Hercule

STRAUSS-DURCKHEIM, Hercule (b. 1790, d. 1865), an eminent French entomologist, was the author of anatomical works of exquisite precision and fulness of detail. Two of these (his monographs of the anatomy of the cockchafer and of the cat) are permanent classics, of which the influence has aided greatly in raising the standard of zoological works.