Author: Bombay Natural History Society

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 728

ISBN-13: 9780267944729

Excerpt from Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society, 1921, Vol. 28: Index and Title Page; Parts 1 and 2 I think that there is no doubt that the data in which Mr. Bell relies are far and away the most satisfactory for purposes of classification and that study of the habits as well as what may be termed cabinet investigation are little more than confirmatory yet, as Mr. Bell points out, there are many species and even genera whose early stages are entirely unknown and all we have to go on for the present are the habits and the results of examination of the image. I had already worked out a rough classification of the family and find that my results accord very closely with Mr. Bell's. I give below the points on which we differ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.