Facts About Bookworms Their History in Literature And Work in Libraries By Rev
Facts About Bookworms Their History in Literature And Work in Libraries By Rev
J F X John Francis Xavier Oconor
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1 The holes are similar to those shown in the Blades illustration. With my own eyes I have examined the larva of the beetle, the Ptinus fur, that has eaten into the . Georgetown volume, as he lay dead by the furrows he dug at his last repast. The illus- tration presents the crushed insect that did the mischief. He was less than one-twenty- fifth of an inch long. A bookbinder once sent Mr. Blades a fat little worm that was found by a workman in an old book. The worm died before reaching maturity.... Mr. Waterhouse, of the Entomological Depart- ment of the British Museum, examined him before death, and "was of opinion that he was jEcophora pseudospretella. " Mr. Rye, i Seep. 51. 35 Facts about Bookworms keeper of the printed books in the British Museum, reported that two or three weakly creatures were discovered there in his time. Mr. Adam White, of the Natural History Department, pronounced one of them to be Anobium pertinax. In the Bodleian Library Mr. Blades found two worms. One he thoughtlessly threw on the floor and trod under foot.
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