Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Papers on Coccid� or Scale Insects: The National Collection of Coccid�
Mr. H. G. Hubbard, who has already been referred to as having published an important paper on remedies. For Coccidae in the Annual Report of the Department for continued his investigation of orange insects and the means of controlling them, at Crescent City, Fla, as an agent of the Department of Agriculture, and published in 1885 his excellent report entitled Insects Affecting the Orange. This represented nearly four years' study and experiment, and dealt very largely with the common scale enemies Of the orange. Mr. Hub bard's interest in, scale insects, aroused in this study, continued, although he published nothing noteworthy afterwards on-the subject. It was, however, his intention to bring out a new and thoroughly revised edition of his Orange. Insects, and to take up in connection with it a study of the classification of Coccidae; but his untimely death prevented the accomplishment Of this task.
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