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THIS forms the fourth volume of a German series of popular works issued under the title “Das Wissen der Gegenwart.” It consists of an examination of certain insects injurious, or otherwise, in field, garden, and forest. The author is a man of scientific training, and as a specialist has acquired that practice of accuracy of statement that necessarily results from the education of a specialist. Much of the contents will prove useful to Englishmen who can read German; a portion, however, concerns insects that happily do not occur with us. The figures are mostly very good, many are excellent a few are indifferent. We recognise most of them as reproductions, or reductions, from varied sources. The “Colorado Beetle” is introduced, and appears somewhat strangely out of place in a work that almost exclusively concerns German insects. Possibly the opportunity for indulging in a little satire (p. 124) may form sufficient excuse, But the author aims his satire at the wrong butt. He alludes to newspaper reports as to Colorado beetles having been sent over by Irish Americans, in order to spite “Englanders,” but omits to suggest that the “scare” existed long before these newspaper reports.
Die Insekten nach ihren Schaden und Nutzen.
Von Prof. Dr. E. Taschenberg. Mit 70 Abbildungen. Pp. 1–300, 8vo. (Leipzig: G. Freytag, 1882.)
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Die Insekten nach ihren Schaden und Nutzen . Nature 27, 172 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/027172a0
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