Lanterna Rally

Author: United States Entomological Commission

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-26

Total Pages: 824

ISBN-13: 9781527754614

Excerpt from First Annual 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 This report is the more immediate result of the first year's work of the Commission, and is respectfully submitted for the benefit of the farmers of the West, who have so sorely suffered from the injuries inflicted by the insect of which it treats. The Commissioners hope and believe that it will form an invaluable record, for future reference and use, of all that is at present known of so important a subject. Our work was ordered primarily for the benefit of the farmers of the locust-stricken country, and we have endeavored to present with great est prominence those features of the subject most important from the practical and economic stand-point. There is, however, matter of a more or less scientific and technical nature invariably connected with investigations like that we are charged with, and the report would, in our judgment, be incomplete were such matter omitted. In order to better enable the reader who cares little or nothing for such technical details to pass over them, they are printed in smaller type than the text. We have divided the locust area into three regions, which we have called, respectively, the Permanent, the Subpermanent, and the Temporary. AS these terms will be frequently used for the sake of precision and conciseness in the body of the Report, we here call the attention of the reader to Map 1, on which they are represented. In order to prevent the volume from becoming too bulky, we have been obliged to shorten some of the concluding chapters, and to omit entirely an elaborate bibliography of locust literature in other countries, prepared for us by Mr. B. P. Mann, of Cambridge, Mass, as also a de scriptive paper on the locusts of the Pacific slope, by Mr. S. H. Scudder. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.