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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:

Graphic Table of the Separation of Families and Genera of Ticks, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2055
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Graphic table of the separation of families and genera of ticks from Lahille with the underlined genera being from the United States of America.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Grasshoppers, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1156
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Illustration of several views of a few types of grasshoppers.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Letter to Sir Charles Lyell from John Curtis, 1828

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Identifier: Coll-203/3/21
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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.

Dates: 1828

Locust Destruction, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/706
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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.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Locust Destruction, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/707
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Photograph of a pit filled with locust carcasses to be buried or burnt in the late 19th or early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Map of Africa Showing the Distribution of the TseTse-Flies As At Present Known, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2058
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Map of Africa showing the distribution areas of the TseTse flies 'as at present known.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Note about 'balgan-bèiste', September 1909

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/92
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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.

Dates: September 1909

Note about insects, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/147
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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'.

Dates: June 1887

Note of references to be checked, June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/143
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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'.

Dates: June 1887

Note on the insect daolag-sgobai, 24 June 1887

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW89/124
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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.

Dates: 24 June 1887