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THIS is a compact little manual which seems to have first appeared in 1883, and has now arrived at its third edition. The portrait of Prof. T. Nenci forms the frontispiece, and the other plate illustrates the ventilation of a silkworm establishment. The text illustrations are good, some of them occupying a whole page. The book is divided into seven parts, dealing with the natural history of the silkworm; the “bacheria,” or silkworm-breeding establishment; races and rearing; diseases of the silkworm; degeneracy and regeneration; outlay; properties of silk, &c.; and other silk-producing Lepidoptera. But the book is chiefly intended as a practical manual; and the last chapter gives little more than the names of a few of the best-known silk-producing Saturniidæ, though the cocoons of two of these are illustrated.
Tito Nenci.
I. Bachi da Seta. 3a edizione con note e aggiunte di Francesco Nenci. Con 47 incisioni e 2 Tavole. Pp. xii + 300. (Milano: Hoepli, 1900.)
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K., W. Tito Nenci . Nature 61, 77 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061077c0
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