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Insects

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:

Descriptions of plants, insects, and minerals, 1766

 Item
Identifier: Coll-205/3/1 (Dc.2.29)
Scope and Contents

Descriptions of new and extant species of plants, mostly, with a few insects and minerals as well (approximately 176 handwritten pages).

Dates: 1766
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Dr. John Walker / Notes and Memoranda on Natural History (7 vols Dc.2.29-35)

Dietary utilization of DNA and its derivatives by Drosophila melanogaster (Meig.), 1963

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/299
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1963.

Dates: 1963
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Differences in the nutritional requirements of D. melanogaster and their relation to heterosis, 1954

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/120
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1953-57.

Dates: 1954
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Drosophila melanogaster as a test organism for aseptic nutritional research, 1955

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/123
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1953-57.

Dates: 1955
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Environmental modification of the eyeless phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster, December 1963

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/3/321
Scope and Contents

Located in Poultry Research Centre Staff Papers 1963.

Dates: December 1963
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Poultry Research Centre

Everything you wanted to know about baculovirus: The Baculovirus Expression System: a laboratory guide. L A King; R D Possee; London: Chapman and Hall; 1992. £30.00. ISBN 0412371502 [Book review], November 1992

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1362/2/1337
Scope and Contents

Located in I.A.P.G.R-E.R.S. Staff Papers 1992. Part 2.

Dates: November 1992
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Institute Offprint Collection / Institute of Animal Physiology and Genetics Research (IAPGR)

Farmers' Enemies, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1258
Scope and Contents

Illustration of five insects considered the 'Farmers' Enemies' - the cattle tick, the scab insect, louse, maggot fly, and the ked, or sheep tick.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael, 1887

 Series
Identifier: Coll-97/CW89
Scope and Contents Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael probably while he lived at 31, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, as this address is written in ink on the first folio. Written on the inside front cover but heavily scored is text which reads 'Mrs Malcolm MacLeod, [- Islay], widow of Mal[colm] MacLeod [Loch-]. The majority of the notebook contains material collected from Donald Currie, crofter, Ìle/ Islay relating folklore and natural history about the birds, fish, shellfish and animals found in and...
Dates: 1887
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection

Genital Apparatus of Margaropus microplus, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2669
Scope and Contents

Illustrations of the genital apparatus of Margaropus microplus with figure a. showing the position of the eggs at time of dropping of tick from host and b. the position of eggs when oviposition begins.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

Graphic Table of Cattle Rotation In a Tick - Infested Pasture, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2057
Scope and Contents

Graphic table of a pasture separated into areas of crops with notes on cattle rotation and removal from tick-infested pastures.

Dates: 1870s-1930s
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Roslin Slide Collection

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