Abstract
ALTHOUGH the study of economic zoology ought to be of some importance in this country, we can point to very few English publications relating to it,—Curtis's “Farm Insects,” and the translation of Kollar's “Garden Insects,” by Westwood and Loudon, being almost the only special works on the subject that we can call to mind, and these are now of old date. This may perhaps be due to the fact that the advantage of attempts at the practical application of zoological and, especially, of entomological knowledge, is very frequently doubtful, but it is certain that in many cases an acquaintance with the natural history of animals must be most valuable to the farmer or gardener, by enabling him to distinguish beneficial from injurious creatures; it is therefore much to be regretted that we possess no good treatise which would place the necessary knowledge within reach of our English agriculturists.
Landwirthschaftliche Zoolgie.
Von Dr. C. G. Giebel. 8vo. pp. 827, with 510 woodcuts. Glogau, 1869. Carl Fleming. (London: Williams and Norgate.)
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Landwirthschaftliche Zoolgie . Nature 1, 355–356 (1870). https://doi.org/10.1038/001355a0
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