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Title: Field Entomologists File, 1907-1908
Series Number: 43/4/4
Acquired:
12/30/63
Volume: 0.3 cubic feet
Arrangement
alphabetically by entomologist and chronologically thereunder
Biographical Note
The Economic Entomology Department of the State Natural History Survey deals with insect and fungi control problems. Insecticide residue, their degradation products and possible adverse effects on man and other animals receive much of the Department's attention.1 The Department is under the direction of the State by the Illinois General Assembly.2
1. Illinois Natural History Survey Bulletin, vol. 27, December, 1958, p. 125
2. Ibid., p. 104.
Subjects (links to similar materials)
Available for use at:
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Description: Field Entomologist's File including correspondence received from field or assistant entomologists John J. Davis, E.L. Dillon, Frank N. Fagan, Wesley P. INT, Hugh and R.D. Glasgow, Alfred D. Gross, Charles A. Hart, H.E. Hodgkiss, George B. Howard, S.M. Pearis, B. B. Pratt, George E. Sanders, I.J. Sheppard, Lindley M. Smith, Charles B. Twigg, James A. West and H.F. Wilson about inspection of orchards and nurseries for San Jose scale, reports of work and travel, requests for supplies, insect populations, crop damage due to insects, travel conditions, policy on requesting removal of infested trees, notices to property owners to spray or remove infested trees or shrubs and publications on the San Jose scale.
