The Social Insects: Their Origin and Evolution

FIRST EDITION ILLUSTRATED MONOGRAPH ON EVOLUTION OF ANTS BY WILLIAM MORTON WHEELER, DEAN OF AMERICAN MYRMECOLOGY IN EARLY 20TH CENTURY. 9 inches tall hardcover, green cloth bindint, publisher's initials blindstamped to cover, gilt title to spine, physician bookplate to front paste-down, xviii, 378 pp, 48 plates; darkening to back endpapers from contact with newsprint, overall very good. WILLIAM MORTON WHEELER (1865 - 1937) was an entomologist at the University of Chicago, followed by the University of Texas, and later became Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. He specialized in the study of ants, and for his work, Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition, Wheeler was awarded the Daniel Giraud Elliot Medal from the National Academy of Sciences in 1922. He was professor of applied biology at Harvard University's Bussey Institute, which had one of the most highly regarded biology programs in the United States. In 1924 he spent about two months in Panama with Dr. Nathan Banks, collecting invertebrates around Barro Colorado and along the railroad in the vicinity of Panama City. Wheeler led the Harvard Australian Expedition (1931-1932) on behalf of the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, a six-man venture sent for the dual purpose of procuring specimens - the museum being weak in Australian animals and.desires[ing] to complete its series - and to engage in the study of the animals of the region when alive. The mission was success with over 300 mammal and thousands of insect specimens returning to the United States.

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Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Co.

Year: 1928

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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