Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 May 2012
The official publication of Bulletin 4, “The Hessian Fly,” by Dr. A. S. Packard, for the N. A. Entom. Commission, has induced me to study again the question of the importation of this insect by Hessian troops at an early period of the war. The excellent memoir by Dr. A. Fitch was believed to have settled this question in a final manner; therefore his opinion was accepted by all subsequent American writers.
* The Biography of the General von Ochs, by L. von Hohenhausen, Cassel, 1827, and F. Pfister die Fahrt der ersten hessischen Heeres abtheilung von Portsmouth nach N. York: Zeitschr. der Vereins fuer hessische geschichte und Landeskunde, Tom. ii., Cassel, 1840.
† Max von Eelking: Die deutschen Huelfstruppon im Nordamerikanischen Befreiungekrisge, 1776–1783, Hannover, 1863, 2 vol.
By the same author: The biography of General Riedesel, Leipzig, 1856, 3 vol.
Friedrich Kapp: Der Soldatenhandel deutscher Fuersten nach Amerika, Berlin, 1864.
Bancroft's History, vol. viii., ix.