Abstract
THIS is simply a reissue of Curtis's classical work; it had long been “out of print” in booksellers' phraseology. It remains the best book on economic entomology that has appeared in this country, and has certainly served as a model for the Reports of various State entomologists on the other side of the Atlantic. No other author here has gone into the question of special injurious insects with the same care and minuteness, and it may be said that (with the exception of certain Reports issued in America) there is no similar collective work faithfully illustrated by the author's own pencil. The plates and woodcuts are in Curtis's best style, and if he had been an entomological artist only, his work would have remained unsurpassed.
Farm Insects.
Being the Natural History and Economy of Insects Injurious to Field Crops, and also those which Infest Barns and Granaries, with Suggestions for their Destruction. By John Curtis. Pp. 540, with 16 Coloured Plates, Royal 8vo. (London: John Van Voorst, 1883.)
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Our Book Shelf . Nature 29, 170 (1883). https://doi.org/10.1038/029170a0
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