Abstract
THIS book is one of the best elementary manuals on insect life that has appeared during recent years in the United States. It is well adapted for the general reader or the student-beginner, since technicalities are reduced to a minimum and the subject is attractively presented without a noticeable tendency to be unduly popular. While sufficient grounding in structure and classification is given, the book, in the main, is concerned with living animals, and more attention is shown to such matters as life, growth, behaviour, food, locomotion, etc. There is also a useful chapter on injurious insects and the means for their control. The illustrations are very good and original, and comprise both line and half-tone examples. Many of the latter are really effective results of the expert use of photography.
The World of Insects
By Prof. Carl D. Duncan Prof. Gayle Pickwell. Pp. ix + 409. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co. Inc., 1939.) 21s.
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The World of Insects. Nature 145, 1005 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/1451005c0
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