Author: Fred; V. Theobald

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-12

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781330044452

Excerpt from Second Report on Economic Zoology, 1904 The volume now issued as the Second Report on Economic Zoology contains a large part of the information furnished by the Director of the Natural History Departments of the British Museum to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries between November, 1902, and November, 1903. It also contains the replies given by the Zoological Department to other correspondents in connection with Economic Zoology, as well as special notes and some longer papers dealing with the subject. Mr. Frederic V. Theobald has carried on the whole of this work and drawn up the Reports now printed. He has been assisted in preparing certain replies to the Board and to other correspondents by Messrs. C. O. Waterhouse, M. R. Oldfield Thomas, F.R.S. and R. I. Pocock, of the Staff of the Zoological Department of the Museum. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse has carefully read the proof-sheets of the present volume. Special acknowledgments are due to those naturalists not on the Staff of the Museum who have assisted Mr. Theobald in accomplishing the work set forth in these Reports. To Mr. Robert Newstead we are indebted for valuable help in naming insects of the family Coccidæ, on which he is the leading authority, as also for his share in the paper on Egyptian Scale Insects (p. 185), which is mainly from his pen. Mr. Albert Michael, Mr. Distant, Dr. Nalepa, of Vienna, Professor L. O. Howard, of Washington, and Professor Neumann, of Toulouse, have also, in their several specialities, given us kind and valuable assistance. The amount and variety of the work which it has been Mr. Theobald's duty to put through have been very large, whilst the energy and ability which he has brought to bear on the task deserve special recognition and appreciation. 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.