43/4/4 Guide to the Field Entomologists File Field Entomologists File

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Guide to the Field Entomologists File 1907/1908 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Field Entomologists File 1907-1908 43/4/4 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Department of Economic Entomology 0.30 English University of Illinois Archives
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Historical 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.

Access Terms

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Genre/Form of Material: Papers Topical Term: Nurseries San Jose Scale
Administrative Information Accruals:

12/30/63

Arrangement of Materials:

alphabetically by entomologist and chronologically thereunder

Scope and Contents

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.