Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects

About this eBook

Author

Riley, Charles V. (Charles Valentine), 1843-1895

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, Jens Nordmann and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

QL: Science: Zoology

Subject

Insects -- Collection and preservation

Category

Text

eBook-No.

39275

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/39275

Release Date

March 26, 2012

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.DIRECTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTS.
2. 2.INTRODUCTORY.
3. 3.MANUAL OF INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING INSECTS.
4. 4.CHARACTERISTICS OF INSECTS.
5. 5.SCOPE AND IMPORTANCE OF ENTOMOLOGY.
6. 6.CLASSIFICATION OF HEXAPODS.
7. 7.COLLECTING. — COLLECTING APPARATUS. — COLLECTING HYMENOPTERA. — COLLECTING COLEOPTERA. — COLLECTING LEPIDOPTERA. — COLLECTING HEMIPTERA. — COLLECTING DIPTERA. — COLLECTING ORTHOPTERA. — COLLECTING NEUROPTERA.
8. 8.KILLING AND PRESERVING INSECTS.
9. 9.ENTOMOTAXY. — CARE OF PINNED AND MOUNTED SPECIMENS. — PRESERVATION OF ALCOHOLIC SPECIMENS. — LABELING SPECIMENS.
10. 10.INSECT BOXES AND CABINETS.
11. 11.ARRANGEMENT OF INSECTS IN THE CABINET.
12. 12.MUSEUM PESTS, MOLD, ETC. — MOLD. — VERDIGRISING AND GREASING.
13. 13.THE REARING OF INSECTS.
14. 14.DIRECTIONS FOR TRANSMITTING INSECTS.
15. 15.NOTES AND MEMORANDA.
16. 16.INSTRUCTIONS FOR COLLECTING AND PRESERVING ARACHNIDS AND MYRIAPODS. — DIRECTIONS FOR COLLECTING SPIDERS. — COLLECTING OTHER ARACHNIDS: MITES, TICKS, SCORPIONS, ETC. — COLLECTING MYRIAPODA.
17. 17.TEXT BOOKS—ENTOMOLOGICAL WORKS. — COMPREHENSIVE WORKS MOST USEFUL FOR THE STUDY OF NORTH AMERICAN INSECTS. — GENERAL WORKS ON CLASSIFICATION. — AMERICAN PERIODICALS. — FOREIGN PERIODICALS. — LIST OF MORE USEFUL WORKS ON ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY. — ENTOMOLOGICAL WORKS PUBLISHED BY THE UNITED STATES ENTOMOLOGICAL COMMISSION AND BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.
18. 18.HOW TO OBTAIN ENTOMOLOGICAL BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS.

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