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MISS ETHEL KATHERINE PEARCE, whose death occurred on January 8, at Morden, Dorset, at the age of eighty-three, was an entomologist who devoted her energy and enthusiasm almost entirely to Diptera. A daughter of a vicar of Morden, she had around her one of the finest entomological hunting grounds even in a county as favoured as Dorset. The first series of her work, "Typical Flies", a photographic atlas in which the author sought to popularize and extend the study of an order of insects much neglected in those days, was published in 1915. A preface giving practical guidance for collecting and preservation is followed by a sketch of Brauer's classification of the Diptera, and his sixty families are named, the Aphaniptera (fleas) being included. The forty-five pages of reproductions from photographs, considering the great difficulty of such work, are admirable, the flies figured being all recognizable and characteristic. In some cases preliminary stages are shown. The photographs of typical Dorset localities are a very pleasing and helpful feature. They not only give information as to the habitat of the fly, but also tempt the Nature lover to explore such delightful environment.
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HAINES, F. Miss E. K. Pearce. Nature 145, 178–179 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145178b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/145178b0