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THIS work is important contribution to the study of British insects ; the need for such a catalogue had been felt for many years. It is curious that the rearliest list of British insects was by a German named Johann Reinhold Forster, and was printed at Warrington in 1770. A photographic reproduction of the title page of this work forms the frontispiece in the present book. The last list of British insects was by the Rev. F. O. Morris and was published eighty-one years ago. It is so rare nowadays that Messrs. Kloet and Hincks mention being unable to see a copy.
A Check List of British Insects
By George Sidney Kloet Walter Douglas Hincks. Pp. lix + 496. (Heaton Chapel, Stockport: Kloet and Hincks, 1945.) 52s. 6d.
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A Check List of British Insects. Nature 158, 183 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158183b0
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