Author: Albert Pitts Morse

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Published: 2015-07-22

Total Pages: 82

ISBN-13: 9781331972419

Excerpt from Further Researches on North American Acridiidae Introduction. The following report is based upon data obtained during a second field trip of ten weeks duration in the summer of 1905 under the auspices of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and forms a partial field study of the Acridian fauna of the central Southern States. A large amount of material and of biological data and several undescribed forms were secured. Acknowledgments. To the Trustees of the Carnegie Institution of Washington I wish to express my deep appreciation of the liberality which has enabled me to conduct these investigations. I desire also to express my indebtedness to Drs. B. L. Robinson and M. L. Fernald, of the Gray Herbarium, for the determination of plant specimens; to Mr. A. N. Caudell, of the United States National Museum, for aid in identifying material; to Mr. Samuel Henshaw for favors received in connection with the examination of material in the Museum of Comparative Zoology; and to him and Mr. S. H. Scudder for their unfailing interest and encouragement in this work. Purpose, Methods, And Outline Of Trip. Purpose. The purpose of the second trip, which was undertaken ii continuation of the work of the first, was primarily, like that, to secure general information regarding the North American locust fauna and its ecology over a wide extent of relatively little-studied territory. Such information once secured (as is now the case for the greater part of the country), further effort bearing upon details of taxonomy, distribution, ecology, and variation can be more wisely directed. Methods. 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."