Insects
Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:
Graphic Table of the Separation of Families and Genera of Ticks, 1870s-1930s
Graphic table of the separation of families and genera of ticks from Lahille with the underlined genera being from the United States of America.
Grasshoppers, 1870s-1930s
Illustration of several views of a few types of grasshoppers.
Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from John Curtis, 1828
Letter from John Curtis to Sir Charles Lyell relating to two insect specimens that Curtis was examining, Curtis reports that he has identified one of the two specimens as Elater Lineatus, 1828.
Locust Destruction, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of men standing in a field with sheets gathering up locust carcasses while cattle graze in the background in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Locust Destruction, 1870s-1930s
Photograph of a pit filled with locust carcasses to be buried or burnt in the late 19th or early 20th century.
Map of Africa Showing the Distribution of the TseTse-Flies As At Present Known, 1870s-1930s
Map of Africa showing the distribution areas of the TseTse flies 'as at present known.'
Note about 'balgan-bèiste', September 1909
Note about 'balgan-bèiste' and that it is a globe with an insect inside it, which when a cow swallows an insect is put in water and the water then sprinkled on the cow. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Note about insects, June 1887
Note about insects that they are 'complicated'; that 'The gorgeous drag[on]fly being the bloodyiest (sic) thing in all creation'; that 'Cobhar na Cuthaig is an insect' and that 'Little fleas have lesser fleas upon their legs'.
Note of references to be checked, June 1887
Note by Alexander Carmichael to self of references to be checked in relation to the dragonfly, the raven and the spider, namely Tennyson's 'Two Voices', 'Ayton's PCG' and 'Pope's 192'.
Note on the insect daolag-sgobai, 24 June 1887
Note on the insect daolag-sgobai collected from John MacAulay from Gearrloch [Geàrrloch/Gairloch, Ros is Cromba/Ross and Cromarty] but living in Edinburgh [Dùn Èideann] which states that it is longer than the black beetle and are often found in 'old scrathan' [skins] and in the belly of the dearc-luacharach [lizard]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.