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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 ...
His insect collections and watercolor illustrations were in great demand. In 1797, The Natural History of the Rarer Lepidopterous Insects of Georgia... Collected from the Observations of Mr. John Abbot was edited by James Edward Smith and published in two volumes. It was the first major work on North American insects and contained 104 etchings ...
Cover of the first book in the series, E.B. Ford's famous Butterflies. The New Naturalist Library (also known as The New Naturalists) is a series of books published by Collins in the United Kingdom, on a variety of natural history topics relevant to the British Isles. The aim of the series at the start was: "To interest the general reader in ...
Fabricius named 9,776 species of insects, compared to Linnaeus' tally of around 3,000. [8] He identified many species of Tenebrionidae from the Egyptian Sinai on the basis of other entomologists' collections. [9] Fabricius added two distinct areas to the classification system. He considers both artificial and natural characteristics.
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 ...
Anna Botsford Comstock (September 1, 1854 – August 24, 1930) was an acclaimed author, illustrator, and educator of natural studies. The first female professor at Cornell University, her over 900-page work, The Handbook of Nature Study (1911), is now in its 24th edition.
Annals and Magazine of Natural History 6: 81–89 (1840) The full text. On the Evaniidae and some allied genera of hymenopterous insects. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (1)7: 535–538 (1841). Monograph of the hymenopterous group, Dorylides. Arcana Entomologica 1(5): 73–80 (1842) The full text.
In his later career, rather than the academic monographs he wrote earlier, he began publishing books and articles aimed at a popular audience, including submissions in Natural History magazine. [1] Curran died in 1972 in Leesburg, Florida. Six genera and 71 species of insects are named in his honor. [1]