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Box 2a
Container
Contains 2 Results:
Lecture notes given at Columbia University, subject: “Natural History-Some of its Curiosities.” Subject: honey bees, banyan, roat louse, apple bulb moth, cutworm, apple worm, beetles, metamorphosis, caterpillars, butterfly, flat worm, crab, sea creatures, sponge, jelly fish, cicada, fruit trees, 1868 - 1869
File — Box: 2a, Folder: 49
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Charles Valentine Riley Collection includes correspondence, unpublished lectures, photographs, news clippings, drawings, reprints, books, and artifacts covering the time period from 1868 to 1919. Much of the correspondence is original; however, several letters are copies of items held by other institutions. Copies are noted as such in the container list.The nine series of materials focus on the history of entomology and the development of biological control of insects...
Dates:
1868 - 1869
Address before the National Agricultural Congress, St. Louis. Lecture on Entomology. Subject: chinchbug, Hessian fly, wheat midge, joint worm, apple root, apple worm, caterpillar, noxious insects, plant lice, pests, parasites, 1872
File — Box: 2a, Folder: 50
Identifier: II
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Charles Valentine Riley Collection includes correspondence, unpublished lectures, photographs, news clippings, drawings, reprints, books, and artifacts covering the time period from 1868 to 1919. Much of the correspondence is original; however, several letters are copies of items held by other institutions. Copies are noted as such in the container list.The nine series of materials focus on the history of entomology and the development of biological control of insects...
Dates:
1872