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Cire" (Bibliotheque britannique, tome xxv.), a "Lettre a M. Pictet sur certains dangers que courent les abeilles" ( Bib. brit. xxvii), and "Nouvelles Observ. rel. au sphinx Atropos" ( Bib. brit. xxvii). He died at Lausanne on the 22nd of December 1831. De Candolle gave his name to a genus of Brazilian trees- Huberia laurina. Pierre Huber (1777-1840) followed in his father's footsteps. His best-known work is Recherches sur les mwurs des fourmis indigenes (Geneva and Paris, 1810; new ed., Geneva, 1861), and he also wrote various papers on entomological subjects.

See the account of Francois Huber, by De Candolle, in Bibl. universelle (1832); and the notice of Pierre in Bibl. univ. (1886); also Haag, La France protestante.