Abstract
THE title of the work is likely to give the impression that it is devoted to economic entomology, whereas it is professedly a text-book on general entomology and “relations of insects,” spiders, scorpions, &c, dealing with the common species of all orders found in “the States east of the Rocky Mountains and north of the Gulf States”, including useful instructions on collecting, rearing and preserving insects, their anatomy, &c. The book is written almost expressly for young people, who will find it interesting and instructive in many ways. Unfortunately, many of the illustrations are very poor indeed, and this particularly applies to the Hymenoptera.
Our Insect Friends and Foes: how to Collect, Preserve and Study them.
By Belle S. Cragin Pp. vi + 377. With 255 illustrations. (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, Knickerbocker Press, 1899.)
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Our Insect Friends and Foes: how to Collect, Preserve and Study them . Nature 61, 342 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061342c0
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