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    The British Woodlice Being a Monograph of the Terrestrial Isopod Crustacea Occurring in the British Islands
    The British Woodlice Being a Monograph of the Terrestrial Isopod Crustacea Occurring in the British Islands
    The British Woodlice Being a Monograph of the Terrestrial Isopod Crustacea Occurring in the British Islands
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    The British Woodlice Being a Monograph of the Terrestrial Isopod Crustacea Occurring in the British Islands

    By Wilfred Mark Webb and Charles Sillem

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      The British Woodlice Being a Monograph of the Terrestrial Isopod Crustacea Occurring in the British Islands - Wilfred Mark Webb

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The British Woodlice, by

      Wilfred Mark Webb and Charles Sillem

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

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      Title: The British Woodlice

             Being a Monograph of the Terrestrial Isopod Crustacea

                    Occurring in the British Islands

      Author: Wilfred Mark Webb

              Charles Sillem

      Release Date: October 10, 2013 [EBook #43928]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BRITISH WOODLICE ***

      Produced by Chris Curnow, Quentin Campbell and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      file was produced from images generously made available

      by The Internet Archive)

      Transcriber's Note:

      The twenty-five engraved illustrations of adult woodlice shown in Plates I to XXV at the end of the book have been prepared with thumbnails which preserve the same scale as the original book. Clicking on one of these thumbnail images, or on most other figures in the text, will display a larger image to the same scale.

      Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent accents, punctuation, and hyphenation are as in the original text.

      The æ ligature is used interchangeably with ae throughout.

      Some taxonomic names may have changed since 1906.

      For a complete list of corrections, please see the

      end of this document

      .

      THE BRITISH WOODLICE.

      This monograph first appeared in the Essex Naturalist

      (Volume XIV., 1905-6) and has been republished by special

      arrangement with the Council of the Essex Field Club.

      THE BRITISH WOODLICE.

      BEING

      A MONOGRAPH OF THE TERRESTRIAL ISOPOD CRUSTACEA

      OCCURRING IN THE BRITISH ISLANDS.

      BY

      WILFRED MARK WEBB, F.L.S.,

      Lecturer on Biology and Nature Study to the Surrey County Council,

      Honorary Secretary of the Selborne Society,

      Sometime, Senior Assistant Lecturer on Biology to the Essex County Council,

      and Editor of the Journal of Malacology,

      Joint Author of  Eton Nature Study and Observational Lessons.

      AND

      CHARLES SILLEM.

      With Twenty-Five Plates and Fifty-Nine Figures in the Text.

      LONDON:

      DUCKWORTH & CO.,

      3, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN.

      1906.

      PREFACE.

      In Professor Sars' Crustacea of Norway, quite a number of the British species of woodlice are figured in detail and described in English, but few copies of this fine work are to be met with in our country. The Rev. Canon Norman has from time to time published notes on the British species in The Annals and Magazine of Natural History; these are, however, scattered, and contain but few figures, while other literature that exists is out of date. Under these circumstances, we have thought that the following account and figures of all the British species would be useful to those anxious to work at the woodlice, and might also encourage others to pay attention to the distribution and habits of the interesting tribe to which they belong.

      The writers would welcome any corrections or additions in view of a second edition.

      W.M.W.

      C.S.

      Odstock, Hanwell, December, 1905.

      CONTENTS.

      LIST OF FIGURES.

      PLATES I.-XXV. with a List, will be found at the end of the Book.

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