Lingnan Science Journal, Volume 7. Being the First of Two Volumes of Proceeedings of the Science Conference Held on the Occasion of the Formal Opening of the Willard Straight Science Hall, October 19, 1928

Lim Boon-keng; C. G. Fuson; George D. Hubbard; G. Fenzel; Ching Wa-Chan; Fey Hon-nien; C. A. Middleton Smith; H. H. Chung; A. H. Crook; J. E. Dandy; George Weidman Groff; T. J. Kurotchkin; J. C. Liu; A. S. Hitchcock; F. A. McClure; E. D. Merrill; Willard M. Porterfield; Tanaka Tyozaburo; Josephine E. Tilden; Chung Hwei-lan; Lin Yuan-ying; A. d'Orchymont; E. P. Felt; W. D. Funkhouser; N. Gist Gee; R. Kleine; J. H. Schuurmans Stekhoven, Jr.; P. W. Claassen; H. T. Chen; Thos. E. Snyder; S. F. Light; James G. Needham; Claude R. Kellogg; Dwight W. Pierce; Robert E. Wall; Chenfu F. Wu; Lin Shu-yen; Georg. Ochs; H. H. Karny; A. Boucomont; K. S. Chan; W. E. Hoffmann

Published by Lingnan University, 1929

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xii+831 pp., illustrations, bibliography, index. light cover wear, small tear at top & bottom of spine. Contents: The necessity of scientific education in China to-day; The peoples of Kwangtung: Their origin, migrations, and present distribution; The manufacture of leather in Canton; On the palm and sole prints of Chinese; Manufactures weather; The study of botany in Fukien; A note on Gnetum scandens; The Magnoliaceae of Kwangtung, Macao, and Hong Kong; The botany of Kwangtung and its relation to agriculture; Differentiating fungi by precipitation with water-soluble specific substances; The number of vascular bundles in Ephedra sinica and E. equisetina; Grasses of Canton vicinity; A brief historical survey of the Lingnan University Herbarium; The local resident's opportunity for productive work in the biological sciences in China; Unrecorded plants from Kwangtung Province II; A review of the literature on the growth of Bamboo; Remarks on citrus and citrus relatives in China; The marine and freshwater algae of China; The collection of mosquitoes in south China; On two species of Sphaeridium from the oriental region (Coleoptera, Hydrophilidae); Gall midges or gall gnats of the orient (Itonididae or Cecidomyiidae); The membracidae of China; A common moth and some of its enemies; The Brethnidae and Lycidae of China; Our present knowledge about the Pupipara of Tabanidae of China; A new species of stonefly from China (order Plecoptera, family Nemouridae); Biological notes on a Chrysomelid pest of bamboo; Termites, destroyers of wood and man's fight against them; Present status of our knowledge of the termites of China; Insect inhabitants of the fruiting sprays of the pagoda tree, Sophora japonica; Studies on the Chinese honey-bee; Some principles useful in solving economic biological problems; Study of Brachyplatus subaëneus Westw.; The nervous system of the white grub (the larva of Osmoderma socialis Horn) Part I. External characters of the nervous system; The nervous system of the white grub (the larva of Osmoderma socialis Horn) part II. Internal structure of the brain and ventral nerve cord; External morphology of the corn ear worm; The present status of knowledge bout Chinese Gryinidae; On the cricket locusts (Gryllacrids) of China; A list of the coprophagous Coleoptera of China; Notes on the life history of a wild silkworm; History of Rhynchocoris humeralis Thumb. (Hemiptera, Pentatomidae).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lingnan Science Journal, Volume 7. Being the First of Two Volumes of Proceeedings of the Science Conference Held on the Occasion of the Formal Opening of the Willard Straight Science Hall, October 19, 1928
• Publisher: Lingnan University
• Publication Date: 1929
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Botany
  • China pre-1949