The Tineina of Southern Europe (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: H. T. Stainton
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ISBN: 9781332370184
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386

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Excerpt from The Tineina of Southern Europe The object of the present volume is to supply the Entomologist who visits Southern Europe with one portable volume comprising all that has been written on the Tineina of that portion of the globe. The aim has been to reproduce accurately the records of each observer, but at the same time to place them, if possible, more clearly and distinctly before the reader than they appeared when originally published. The descriptions are reproduced in the actual words of the respective authors, it being thought that he who is trying to make out a species will always prefer to refer to the original than to any translation however perfect. A translator, indeed, who has not the actual insect before him is always liable to make errors which may altogether vitiate the description; for, though correctly translating the words, he may, from misapprehending their meaning, give a very different signification to the passage. The new matter in the volume is really extremely limited, less than a tenth being devoted to the chapter which treats of the author's doings in Southern Europe. But it is thought that the synthetic arrangement of all that has been done in the last twenty-five years, and the addition to that of all that had been written by previous authors, even going back to the year 1750, on the Tineina of Southern Europe, will much facilitate the further study of these insects. I would gladly have added another chapter as an epitome of the more interesting Southern forms included in this volume; but the extent to which the subject had already swollen, and a lurking doubt whether the proposed epitome might not itself grow to rather unreasonable dimensions, induced me to leave that chapter unwritten. 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.