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First anuual report of the United States Entomological Commission for the year 1877 : relating to the Rocky Mountain locust and the best methods of preventing its injuries and of guarding against its invasions, in pursuance of an appropriation made by Congress for this purpose.
Title:
First anuual report of the United States Entomological Commission for the year 1877 : relating to the Rocky Mountain locust and the best methods of preventing its injuries and of guarding against its invasions, in pursuance of an appropriation made by Congress for this purpose.
Author:
United States Entomological Commission.
Publication Information:
Washington [D.C.] : Government Printing Office, 1878.
Physical Description:
xvi, 477 pages, 294 pages, 5 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
General Note:
At head of title: Department of the Interior. United States Geological Survey. F.V. Hayne, U.S. Geologist-in-charge.

"To Mr. Riley were assigned biology, or natural history, invertebrate enemies and parasites (insects, & c.) ... To Mr. Packard, anatomy and embryology. To Mr. Thomas, georgraphical distribution, enemies not entomological, agricultural bearings of the subject. To Packard and Thomas conjointly, connection of meteorological phenomena with the migration."--P.1.

Includes index.
Language:
English
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Format :
Book