Collection of approximately 750 short papers on British Diptera Larvae

Description:

A substantial working reference collection assembled by the British dipterist Kenneth G.V. Smith (1929-2017), comprising papers and offprints relating principally to the larvae and immature stages of British Diptera, 1895-c.1989, arranged in 23 cloth pamphlet boxes. The collection was compiled by Smith as the working reference library for his major publication, An Introduction to the Immature Stages of British Flies: Diptera Larvae, published in 1989 as part of the Royal Entomological Society's Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects.

Smith was a member of the Department of Entomology at the British Museum (Natural History) and a recognised authority on Diptera. The collection brings together nearly a century of literature on the immature stages of British flies, much of it scattered through specialist journals, society publications and separately issued papers.

Condition

Approx. 650 papers and offprints contained in 28 cloth pamphlet boxes.