Author: George H. F. Nuttall

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Published: 2015-07-21

Total Pages: 438

ISBN-13: 9781331947455

Excerpt from Ticks: A Monograph of the Ixodoidea The discovery of the economic importance of ticks as carriers of disease to man and domesticated animals has led to a vast increase of our knowledge of this group. No existing work in any language attempts to deal with the subject in a comprehensive manner, and the student is confronted with a very extensive and widely scattered literature from which he derives an impression of hopeless confusion. There is therefore urgent need for a work of the nature here attempted. The book will deal with the Classification, Structure and Biology of Ticks, the study of the group having occupied the authors for several years. Practically all that has been published on the subject has received adequate consideration. The parts on Classification have entailed much labour since it was found necessary to revise a large amount of the work which has been done by others. The book will be very fully illustrated by numerous text figures and plates, the majority of which are original, the remainder reproduced from the best sources. It was at first intended to publish a full account of the Ixodoidea or Ticks as a complete volume, but the increasing demand for a work dealing with this group of parasites has caused us to decide to issue without delay the part relating to the Argasidae. Other parts will follow, and the whole, we hope, will be ready in about a year. The parts will be complete in themselves but are designed to form a volume of about 500 pages when all the parts have been published. Each part will be issued in a stiff paper cover and will include a bibliography printed on one side of thin paper so that the references can be conveniently cut out and gummed on index cards. A complete bibliography, including all the publications cited in each part, will conclude the volume. In the text the Harvard system of references is adopted, the year and page of the authors' papers being added after their names. Unless otherwise stated all the authors cited have been consulted in the original. The completed volume will also contain an adequate introduction, which we think it better to omit for the present. 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.