Abstract
ENTOMOLOGISTS have seldom concerned themselves with problems of insect physiology. The study of structure, habits and taxonomy in so vast a class has monopolised the field. What is known of insect physiology has, for the most part, resulted as a sideline or by-product of other investigations, rather than as the outcome of the study of insects as such. In the last ten years or so, entomologists have come to realise the necessity for exact knowledge of the functions of insect organs and tissues, especially in regard to the problems of insect control. It is in the latter connexion, perhaps more than any other, that our ignorance of physiology has revealed itself most.
Insect Physiology.
By Dr. V. B. Wigglesworth. (Methuen's Monographs on Biological Subjects.) Pp. x + 134. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1934.) 3s. 6d. net.
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I., A. [Short Notices]. Nature 135, 384 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135384a0
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