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Charles Valentine Riley : founder of modern entomology / W. Conner Sorensen, Edward H. Smith, and Janet R. Smith, with Donald C. Weber.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, (c)2018.Description: 1 online resource (xviii, 438 pages) : illustrations (some color), mapsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780817392222
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QL31 .C437 2018
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Contents:
Along the Kankakee River, 1860-1863 -- Chicago and the Prairie farmer, 1863-1868 -- Missouri State Entomologist, 1868-1877 -- The "book of nature" according to Darwin -- Subterranean killers -- Devouring locusts -- Washington gadfly, 1879-1881 -- Assisting nature's balance -- Years of fulfillment -- "A great big silk farm" -- Vedalia the "wonder beetle" and biological control -- Creating a National Insect Collection -- Unfinished business -- A valuable career cut short -- Appendix: List of insects and other arthropods mentioned in the text.
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Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) Online Book (LOGIN USING YOUR MY CIU LOGIN AND PASSWORD) G. Allen Fleece Library ONLINE Non-fiction QL31.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Link to resource Available on1107306581

Includes bibliographies and index.

The Thames, the Channel, the Rhine, 1843-1859 -- Along the Kankakee River, 1860-1863 -- Chicago and the Prairie farmer, 1863-1868 -- Missouri State Entomologist, 1868-1877 -- The "book of nature" according to Darwin -- Subterranean killers -- Devouring locusts -- Washington gadfly, 1879-1881 -- Assisting nature's balance -- Years of fulfillment -- "A great big silk farm" -- Vedalia the "wonder beetle" and biological control -- Creating a National Insect Collection -- Unfinished business -- A valuable career cut short -- Appendix: List of insects and other arthropods mentioned in the text.

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