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Nature, Gardens & Animals
A Text-book of Entomology
A. S. Packard
1,050 pages~20 hr 55 min read219 chapters$1.99
Insects outnumber every other animal, and Alpheus Packard's textbook opens their world. He sets their place in the animal kingdom, then works through the morphology and physiology that make a beetle a beetle. A comprehensive foundation for the student of bugs. Begin a serious study of the most abundant creatures on Earth.
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219 chapters
- 1A TEXT-BOOK OF ENTOMOLOGY INCLUDING THE ANATOMY, PHYSIOLOGY, EMBRYOLOGY AND METAMORPHOSES OF INSECTS FOR USE IN AGRICULTURAL AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES AS WELL AS BY THE WORKING ENTOMOLOGIST
- 2PREFACE
- 3TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 4PART I.—MORPHOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGY
- 5POSITION OF INSECTS IN THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
- 6Tabular View of the Eight Branches or Phyla of the Animal Kingdom.
- 7RELATIONS OF INSECTS TO OTHER ARTHROPODA
- 8LITERATURE ON SCOLOPENDRELLA
- 9INSECTA (HEXAPODA)
- 101. EXTERNAL ANATOMY
- 11a. The regions of the body
- 12b. The integument (exoskeleton)
- 13c. Mechanical origin and structure of the segments (somites, arthromeres, metameres, zonites)
- 14d. Mechanical origin of the limbs and of their jointed structure
- 15LITERATURE ON THE EXTERNAL ANATOMY
- 16General
- 17THE HEAD AND ITS APPENDAGES
- 18a. The head
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