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It proposed “ Natural classes and genera are based not only on the mouthparts, the wings or the antennae, but on careful observation of the entire structure, even of the smallest differences". Jean Victoire Audouin (1797–1841) born. 1798 Edward Donovan An Epitome of the Natural History of the Insects of China published in London. It is a ...
John Curtis Farm Insects being the natural history and economy of the insects injurious to the field crops of Great Britain and Ireland with suggestions for their destruction Glasgow, Blackie. Seminal work on economic entomology. Giovanni Passerini's Gli afidi con un prospetto dei generi ed alcune specie nuove Italiane, published at Parma
The natural Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder (23–79 CE) wrote a book on the kinds of insects, [4] while the scientist of Kufa, Ibn al-A'rābī (760–845 CE) wrote a book on flies, Kitāb al-Dabāb (كتاب الذباب). However scientific study in the modern sense began only relatively recently, in the 16th century. [5]
First part of An introduction to the modern classification of insects. ( 1839–1840) published. John Forbes Royle Illustrations of the Botany and Other Branches of the Natural History of the Himalayan Mountains, and of the Flora of Cashmere published. This work resembles 18th century works in its sumptuous illustration.
He was also author of The letters of Rusticus on the natural history of Godalming. Extracted from the Magazine of natural history, the Entomological magazine, and the Entomologist (1849). [1] The topic of these "letters" is economic entomology, some were published in Chamber's Journal. Newman's Attempted division of British Insects into natural ...
Frontispiece from 1736 edition of The Natural History of Spiders and other Curious Insects with Albin on a horse. Eleazar Albin (fl. 1690 – c. 1742) [1] was an English naturalist and watercolourist illustrator who wrote and illustrated a number of books including A Natural History of English Insects (1720), A Natural History of Birds (1731–38) and A Natural History of Spiders and other ...
The Beadle/Leckie book covers a smaller geographical area and (one author claims) covers moths in greater detail. [5] The old Covell book has been out-of-print for many years, but is currently available through the Virginia Museum of Natural History (which purchased the rights to that book). [5] [6]
The common denominator among most deposits of fossil insects and terrestrial plants is the lake environment. Those insects that became preserved were either living in the fossil lake (autochthonous) or carried into it from surrounding habitats by winds, stream currents, or their own flight (allochthonous).