Our Insects Friends And Foes By William Atherton Dupuy 1925 Field Guide W Pics

Description: Romance of Science Series OUR INSECT FRIENDS AND FOES WILLIAM ATHERTON DUPUY Introduction by LELAND O. HOWARD, PH.D., LL.D., Sc.D. CHIEF OF THE BUREAU OF ENTOMOLOGY, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE THE JOHN C. WINSTON COMPANY CHICAGO SAN FRANCISCO PHILADELPHIA DALLAS TORONTO, CAN. PREFACE THIs is not a book on entomology, but a travelog of insect land. It is not intended to add to the knowledge of the scientist, but to show the general reader the vastly important relationship which exists between insects and human beings. Its purpose is not to set forth weighty information in an impressive manner, but simple facts in such a way that the story of them will be easy to read. It is not written for the occasional student who delights in dry tomes, but for the multitude whom it would help to discover that there is romance among these small neighbors that is as enthralling as that encountered by sailors shipwrecked on outlandish, far-away islands. The language of science is not the language of the street. It must be technical, must use terms understood only by the initiated. These terms are commonplaces to the scientist. He uses them unconsciously much as each of us uses the words peculiar to the calling which he follows. The scientist cannot be stopped in what he is doing that the milkman may be made to understand. Getting the message to the milkman is somebody else's task, is the work for a go-between, an interpreter. Thus does it happen that I, a man whose profession is not science, but journalism, have been thrust into the breech. I am to try to make Entomology understandable to and interesting to all men.

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