Author: Scudder, S. H.
Title: The early types of insects: or the origin and sequence of insect life in Palaeozoic times.
Description: Boston, MA, Boston Society of Natural History, 1879. Large 4to. 9 pp. [numbered 13-21]. Original printed wrappers. = An important, thought-provoking work, studded with facts on the discovery, impact and meaning of the oldest fossil insects. ADDED: a loosely inserted confirmation and reply leaf, signed by the secretary of the Society, Edward Burgess, to his colleague at the Kaiserlich-Königliche Geographische Gesellschaft in Vienna, acknowledging the reception of one of their publications, and of the transmission of this paper by Scudder, dated June 15, 1879. A near mint copy.

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