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Contributions from the Laboratory of Entomology: Volume 5 [Vol. V] (Bussey Institution of Applied Biology, Harvard Univ.) (Contributions on Entomology V): 34 Offprints and/or Reprints Bound in 1 Vol.; Articles 150-169; 172-177; 179-186 (1919-1923)
A.L. Melander; William Morton Wheeler; Charles T. Brues; Alfred C. Kinsey; J. Percy Baumberger; C.L. Metcalf; Esther W. Hall; Leopoldo B. Uichanco; Rudolf W. Glaser; Roland F. Hussey; H.B. Peirson; R. Heber Howe, Jr.
Published by Bussey Institution, Harvard University, 1919
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Katsumi-san Co., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.Katsumi-san Co.
Contact seller5-star sellerHardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Deaccessioned from a Harvard University library, originally the gift of Charles T. Brues, who is the author of several of the works in this collection and made one small manuscript correction in a footnote of one of his contributions; spine labels are black morocco leather with gilt lette…ring; binding has light wear and minor soil; spine is sunned; several margins have chip(s); tight, text clean. Includes: microsania -- chinese ants -- chalcid-fly parasitic -- two gynandromorphous ants -- fossil cynipidae -- aculeata -- nutritional study of insects -- paper-making crematogaster -- lordomyrma emery -- metapone forel -- respiratory apparatus of dipterous larvae -- a neotropical ant -- phoresy of antherophagus -- new species of american cynipidae -- life histories of american cynipidae -- phylogeny of cynipid genera -- classification of insects on characters of larva and pupa -- new tryphoninae -- selection of food plants by insects -- formicidae subfamilies -- psyllidae from philippines -- nitrates and reducing powers of bacteria -- intracellular bacteria -- parabiosis and ant gardens of british guiana -- fungus in fat body of pulvinaria innumberabilis -- gigantiops destructor and other leaping ants -- notes on hemiptera, new gerris -- pales weevil -- food habits in hymenoptera -- paraperipatus, other species of the genus from new guinea and ceram -- army ants in british guiana -- termitobracon -- two myrmecophilous phoridae from british guiana -- new england odonata. All 34 works are present and accounted for; article nos. 170, 171 and 178 were "omitted," according to the printed table of contents. Of especial note in this collection are the four contributions by young Alfred C. Kinsey, who later gained fame as a sexologist. Interesting provenance. Huge, heavy volume. [b 102].