The Insect Menace

Abstract

DESPITE the fact that human health and happiness rest on biological foundations, it is surprising how slight has been the incorporation of biological knowledge in current public opinion. For this condition of affairs the biologist himself has not been without blame, in that he has failed to realise that none but the trained specialist can hope to understand the jargon of technical terminology, in which his researches are written. Since the general public provides much of the sinews, which make biological research possible, it seems only fair that its members should be provided from time to time with a readily intelligible account of the progress that the biologist is making in solving problems of human import. In no biological field does the stream of research flow so rapidly as in that of entomology, and in this book the author, who successfully directed the affairs of the United States Bureau of Entomology for many years, sets himself the task of educating the lay mind in the methods by which the entomologist is coping with the depredations of insect pests.

The Insect Menace.

By L. O. Howard. Pp. xv + 347 + 32 plates. (London: D. Appleton and Co., 1931.) 12s. 6d. net.