Abstract
DURING the last thirty years, seven or eight distinct catalogues of British Coleoptera have been published, and have met with an encouraging sale; hence there can be no doubt that there exists a considerable number of collectors of British Coleoptera. But no really satisfactory systematic work on this department of the aunæ of our islands exists, and Mr. Fowler has done well in attempting to supply such an one. The earlier works of Curtis and Stephens are, for obvious reasons, of little practical use in the present day, and though, twelve years ago, Mr. H. E. Cox published a hand book of British Coleoptera in two volumes, it cannot be said to have been the work required, owing to the facts that it contained no reference to localities, and that it consisted entirely of systematic tables, without the addition of any matter that could make it a pleasant book to use.
The Coleoptera of the British Islands.
A Descriptive Account of the Families, Genera, and Species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland; with Notes as to Localites, Habitats, &c. By Rev. W. W. Fowler. Vol. I. Adephaga—Hydrophilidæ. Pp. xxii. and 269. Two Plates. (London: Lovell Reeve, 1887.)
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S., D. The Coleoptera of the British Islands . Nature 35, 531–532 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/035531a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/035531a0