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NINE years have elapsed since the appearance of the second edition of this text-book. In its present edition the work has been re-written in places in order to bring it up to date, while a certain amount of new matter has been incorporated. Great advances have been made in knowledge of pest control, certain new pests have appeared in the United States and sundry other problems in applied entomology have come into prominence. The chief facts respecting these and other subjects are referred to in the text, but the important subject of the insect transmission of plant viruses seems to have been almost overlooked. Of the introductory chapters, those on pest control provide a good elementary statement of the position. In the rest of the book, the method of dealing with the chief pests, order by order, is followed as in the previous editions. The book is a useful elementary treatise for North American students, in that it provides the essential facts and thereby paves the way for more detailed study.
Applied Entomology:
an Introductory Text-Book of Insects in their relations to Man By Prof. H. T. Fernald. (McGraw-Hill Publications in the Zoölogical Sciences.) Third edition. Pp. x + 405. (New York and London: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1935.) 21s. net.
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[Short Notices]. Nature 137, 445 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137445b0
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