Guide to the Specimens and Enlarged Models of Insects and Ticks Exhibited in the Central Hall, Illustrating Their Importance in the Spread of Disease (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Guide to the Specimens and Enlarged Models of Insects and Ticks Exhibited in the Central Hall, Illustrating Their Importance in the Spread of Disease The method of explaining to visitors the general appearance and the details of the external features of insects by means of models on a large scale, rather than by the more customary drawings, was first adopted by Sir E. Ray Lankester, Director of the Museum, in the year 1900. The earliest models were those of two mosquitoes and a tsetse-fly. After Sir Ray Lankester´s retirement in December 1907, the method was followed up by the preparation of a model of a Ilea (presented by tho Eutomological Research Committee); more recently, models of a house-fly and a tick have been added. During the present year the series of disease-spreading insects and ticks has been further increased by placing on view a collection of specimens and models of tsctsc-tiics, tabanid Hies, mosquitoes and ticks; this collection was prepared, on behalf of the Exhibitions Branch of the Board of Trade, in 1913, under the direction of Mr. E. E. Austen, Assistant in the Department of Entomology, and was shown in the "Tropical Diseases" Section of the International Exhibition at Ghent in the summer of that year. The models have been kindly lent to the Museum by the Board. Only those insects and ticks that are of importance in the spread of disease have been selected for exhibition iu the middle of the Central Hall; the general series of insects and ticks is to be found in the Arthropod Gallery, in the West Wing of the Museum; the collection of insects injurious to crops is exhibited in the North Hall. The large models shown in the Hall were constructed under the supervision of expert entomologists by Mrs. E. D. Blackman and Miss Grace Edwards, and so far as is possible they are correct in the smallest details. The present guide-book is to a large extent a compilation, made by Dr. W. G. Ridewood, of the exhibited labels that accompany the insects and the models. The acknowledgments of the Trustees are due to Drs. Castellani and Chalmers for permission to use the figures of the house-fly, bed-bug and tick given in their Manual of Tropical Medicine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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