Excerpt: Entomological Reprint Specialists have done a fine service to the field of entomology and the study of Lepidoptera in particular by making the first volume of Forbes\u27 work on the Lepidoptera of the northeastern states generally available. This volume remains the only comprehensive work on the numerous families included in the primitive moths, Microlepidoptera, Pyraloidea, and Bombycoidea for a major portion of North America

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The Great Lakes Entomologist Volume 4 Number 1 -- Spring 1971 Number 1 -- Spring 1971 Article 9 July 2017 Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States, Part 1 (1923). William T. M. Forbes. Los Angeles: Entomological Reprint Specialists, 1969. 729 pp. $17.50. Ronald W. Hodges U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle  Part of the Entomology Commons Recommended Citation Hodges, Ronald W. 2017. "Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States, Part 1 (1923). William T. M. Forbes. Los Angeles: Entomological Reprint Specialists, 1969. 729 pp. $17.50.," The Great Lakes Entomologist, vol 4 (1) Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol4/iss1/9 This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Biology at ValpoScholar. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Great Lakes Entomologist by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member at scholar@valpo.edu. 32 THE MICHIGAN ENTOMOLOGIST Vol. 4, No. 1 INVERTEBRATA PACIFICA (1903-7). Edited by C. F. Baker. Hampton, Middlesex, England: E. W. Classey, 1969. [ii], 197 pp. $10.80. Charles Fuller Baker (1872-1927) was born in Lansing, Michigan, and received his undergraduate degree from Michigan Agricultural College [now Michigan State University) in 1892. While on the faculty of the Colorado Agricultural College he collected extensively in the West, specializing in the Homoptera. After a decade of varied employment, ranging from service as botanist on the H. H. Smith expedition to  Colombia (1898-99) to teaching high school in St. Louis, he returned to academic life and obtained his M.S. at Stanford in 1903. Baker then spent a year teaching at Pomona College, California (1903-4), where he began the serial Invertebrata Pacifica. From 1904 to 1907 he headed the Department of Botany at the Estacion Agronomica, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, and for a year he was curator of the herbarium and botanical garden at Para, Brazil. He then returned to  Pomona, where he edited several biological journals. In 191 1 he joined the faculty of the University of the Philippines, where he remained as professor and dean of agriculture until his death. Baker contributed greatly to  the development of agriculture in the Philippines, but a greater import to  entomology was his enormous collection of Western Pacific insects, which occupied all his spare time and whatever funds he could divert from his salary. His Cuban collector went with him to the Philippines and worked at developing and curating the collection; Pacific insects were sent for study and determination to  experts around the world. At Baker's death he held perhaps 600,000 specimens (including over 7000 types of various orders), which were deposited in the U.S. National Museum. Baker was already a well-known collector when he began theznvertebrata Pacifica series, much of which was devoted to species descriptions either by him or from material in his American collection. The very scarce serial, originally issued in twelve parts, contains descriptions of Orthoptera, Plecoptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, Neuroptera, Diptera, Siphonaptera and Hymenoptera, chiefly from California, Nevada and Nicaragua. There are collection records of other orders, including Isoptera, Mecoptera and Trichoptera. This Classey reprint will be very welcome to students of these orders. I t  is well printed and attractively bound, but as in many reprints, there is no introduction. R. S. Wilkinson LEPIDOPTERA OF NEW YORK AND NEIGHBORING STATES. PART I(1923). William T. M. Forbes. Los Angeles: Entomological Reprint Specialists, 1969. 729 pp. $17.50. Entomological Reprint Specialists have done a fine service to  the field of entomology and the study of Lepidoptera in particular by making the first volume of Forbes' work on the Lepidoptera of the northeastern states generally available. This volume remains the only comprehensive work on the numerous families included in the primitive moths, Microlepi- doptera, Pyraloidea, and Bombycoidea for a major portion of North America. Modem revisions have been completed for some of the families covered by Forbes, and so in these areas the work is out of date; however, it will be many years before the entire fauna is treated in a contemporary manner. Forbes' key to  the lepidopteran families remains a singular contribution. It is the most usable and dependable one available for America north of Mexico. The facsimile edition is faithful to  the original, and thus many of the irregularities in type are not a fault of the reproduction but rather of the original. The color contrast between type and page is greater than in the out-of-print edition, making the facsimile more easily readable. Ronald W. Hodges Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA c/o U.S. National Museum. Washington, D.C. 20560 1Hodges: Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States, Part 1Published by ValpoScholar, 2017

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The Great Lakes Entomologist 
Volume 4 
Number 1 -- Spring 1971 Number 1 -- Spring 
1971 
Article 9 
July 2017 
Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States, Part 1 (1923). 
William T. M. Forbes. Los Angeles: Entomological Reprint 
Specialists, 1969. 729 pp. $17.50. 
Ronald W. Hodges 
U.S. National Museum, Washington, D.C. 
Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle 
 Part of the Entomology Commons 
Recommended Citation 
Hodges, Ronald W. 2017. "Lepidoptera of New York and Neighboring States, Part 1 (1923). William T. M. 
Forbes. Los Angeles: Entomological Reprint Specialists, 1969. 729 pp. $17.50.," The Great Lakes 
Entomologist, vol 4 (1) 
Available at: https://scholar.valpo.edu/tgle/vol4/iss1/9 
This Book Review is brought to you for free and open access by the Department of Biology at ValpoScholar. It has 
been accepted for inclusion in The Great Lakes Entomologist by an authorized administrator of ValpoScholar. For 
more information, please contact a ValpoScholar staff member at scholar@valpo.edu. 
32 THE MICHIGAN ENTOMOLOGIST Vol. 4, No. 1 
INVERTEBRATA PACIFICA (1903-7). Edited by C. F. Baker. Hampton, Middlesex, 
England: E. W. Classey, 1969. [ii], 197 pp. $10.80. 
Charles Fuller Baker (1872-1927) was born in Lansing, Michigan, and received his 
undergraduate degree from Michigan Agricultural College [now Michigan State University) 
in 1892. While on the faculty of the Colorado Agricultural College he collected extensively 
in the West, specializing in the Homoptera. After a decade of varied employment, ranging 
from service as botanist on the H. H. Smith expedition to  Colombia (1898-99) to teaching 
high school in St. Louis, he returned to academic life and obtained his M.S. at Stanford in 
1903. 
Baker then spent a year teaching at Pomona College, California (1903-4), where he began 
the serial Invertebrata Pacifica. From 1904 to 1907 he headed the Department of Botany at 
the Estacion Agronomica, Santiago de las Vegas, Cuba, and for a year he was curator of the 
herbarium and botanical garden at Para, Brazil. He then returned to  Pomona, where he 
edited several biological journals. In 191 1 he joined the faculty of the University of the 
Philippines, where he remained as professor and dean of agriculture until his death. Baker 
contributed greatly to  the development of agriculture in the Philippines, but a greater 
import to  entomology was his enormous collection of Western Pacific insects, which 
occupied all his spare time and whatever funds he could divert from his salary. His Cuban 
collector went with him to the Philippines and worked at developing and curating the 
collection; Pacific insects were sent for study and determination to  experts around the 
world. At Baker's death he held perhaps 600,000 specimens (including over 7000 types of 
various orders), which were deposited in the U.S. National Museum. 
Baker was already a well-known collector when he began theznvertebrata Pacifica series, 
much of which was devoted to species descriptions either by him or from material in his 
American collection. The very scarce serial, originally issued in twelve parts, contains 
descriptions of Orthoptera, Plecoptera, Hemiptera, Homoptera, Neuroptera, Diptera, 
Siphonaptera and Hymenoptera, chiefly from California, Nevada and Nicaragua. There are 
collection records of other orders, including Isoptera, Mecoptera and Trichoptera. This 
Classey reprint will be very welcome to students of these orders. I t  is well printed and 
attractively bound, but as in many reprints, there is no introduction. 
R. S. Wilkinson 
LEPIDOPTERA OF NEW YORK AND NEIGHBORING STATES. PART I(1923). William 
T. M. Forbes. Los Angeles: Entomological Reprint Specialists, 1969. 729 pp. $17.50. 
Entomological Reprint Specialists have done a fine service to  the field of entomology and 
the study of Lepidoptera in particular by making the first volume of Forbes' work on the 
Lepidoptera of the northeastern states generally available. This volume remains the only 
comprehensive work on the numerous families included in the primitive moths, Microlepi- 
doptera, Pyraloidea, and Bombycoidea for a major portion of North America. Modem 
revisions have been completed for some of the families covered by Forbes, and so in these 
areas the work is out of date; however, it will be many years before the entire fauna is 
treated in a contemporary manner. Forbes' key to  the lepidopteran families remains a 
singular contribution. It is the most usable and dependable one available for America north 
of Mexico. 
The facsimile edition is faithful to  the original, and thus many of the irregularities in type 
are not a fault of the reproduction but rather of the original. The color contrast between 
type and page is greater than in the out-of-print edition, making the facsimile more easily 
readable. 
Ronald W. Hodges 
Systematic Entomology Laboratory, USDA 
c/o U.S. National Museum. 
Washington, D.C. 20560 
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