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  • He was referring to the papers a friend of his had published in the Entomological Transactions, which he was sending to Lyell.

    Archive 2009-03-01 AYDIN 2009

  • Beulah Garner, natural history curator at the Horniman Museum and Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society.

    Why Science is Important Peggy 2009

  • In the fall of 1965, Wilson sailed on the Queen Mary to England to give an invited lecture on the social behavior of insects to the Royal Entomological Society in London.

    SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011

  • This week: Supply a humorous limerick prominently featuring any English word, name or term beginning with the letters dr -, as in the example above by Pulitzer Prize-winning Entomological Versifier Gene Weingarten of Washington (the fruit fly is pronounced "droSOPHila," by the way).

    Style Invitational Week 882: Our annual limerick contest; and bad ideas for security 2010

  • As distinguished by another engraved plate on the wall, he was also an esteemed member of the Entomological Society of America.

    CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: Skin Deep Jerome Preisler 2010

  • I saw a photo of a fawn once at an Entomological conference whose head was totally covered with ticks – it was dying from blood loss.

    A better way to die? | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

  • He was referring to the papers a friend of his had published in the Entomological Transactions, which he was sending to Lyell.

    Who was Darwin's ridiculo-sublime friend? AYDIN 2009

  • Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 17: 99-103.

    Wet Tropics of Queensland World Heritage Site, Australia 2008

  • Since my return, up to this date, I have published eighteen papers in the “Transactions” or “Proceedings of the Linnean Zoological and Entomological Societies”, describing or cataloguing portions of my collections, along with twelve others in various scientific periodicals on more general subjects connected with them.

    The Malay Archipelago 2004

  • “During my constant attendance at the meetings of the Zoological and Entomological Societies, and visits to the insect and bird departments of the British Museum,” he wrote later, “I had obtained sufficient information to satisfy me that the very finest field for an exploring and collecting naturalist was to be found in the great Malayan Archipelago.”

    The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

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