first edition cloth binding
1937 · Cambridge
by Wheeler, William Morton
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1937. First edition.
EMINENT AMERICAN MYRMECOLOGIST W. M. WHEELER'S LAST BOOK.
15x24 cm hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, signature dated 11/10/49 and book label of Herbert S. Taylor to front free endpaper, [i-xiii], 95 pp, 18 figures, 2 plates. Very good in good+ soiled jacket with minimal edge wear, in protective mylar sleeve. PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "During 1935 Dr. Neal Albert Weber, a pupil of Professor Wheeler's, collected in Trinidad, B. W. I., the entire personnel of two large ant-colonies which contained unprecedented numbers of anomalous individuals. The present volume deals with the smaller colony, which is that of a fungus-growing (Attine) ant, Acromyrmex fctospinosus Reich. This contains only 164 anomalous individuals, but fifty-three of these are of unusual interest both because they are quite unlike any previously Dbserved among ants or indeed among my other social insects, and because they contain the solutions of the problems of ^aste determination in ants which have t>een bothering students of ants for the past half century." FOREWORD: "The manuscript of this book was brought by Professor Wheeler to the Press but a few days before his death. With characteristic generosity he had associated with his own name that of his student, Dr. Neal Weber, as co-author. Dr. Weber, however, has felt that inasmuch as absence from Cambridge prevented him from playing much part inthe preparation of the manuscript, he would prefer that it should stand under Professor Wheeler's name alone" (Inventory #: 1667)
EMINENT AMERICAN MYRMECOLOGIST W. M. WHEELER'S LAST BOOK.
15x24 cm hardcover, blue cloth binding, gilt title to spine, signature dated 11/10/49 and book label of Herbert S. Taylor to front free endpaper, [i-xiii], 95 pp, 18 figures, 2 plates. Very good in good+ soiled jacket with minimal edge wear, in protective mylar sleeve. PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "During 1935 Dr. Neal Albert Weber, a pupil of Professor Wheeler's, collected in Trinidad, B. W. I., the entire personnel of two large ant-colonies which contained unprecedented numbers of anomalous individuals. The present volume deals with the smaller colony, which is that of a fungus-growing (Attine) ant, Acromyrmex fctospinosus Reich. This contains only 164 anomalous individuals, but fifty-three of these are of unusual interest both because they are quite unlike any previously Dbserved among ants or indeed among my other social insects, and because they contain the solutions of the problems of ^aste determination in ants which have t>een bothering students of ants for the past half century." FOREWORD: "The manuscript of this book was brought by Professor Wheeler to the Press but a few days before his death. With characteristic generosity he had associated with his own name that of his student, Dr. Neal Weber, as co-author. Dr. Weber, however, has felt that inasmuch as absence from Cambridge prevented him from playing much part inthe preparation of the manuscript, he would prefer that it should stand under Professor Wheeler's name alone" (Inventory #: 1667)
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