Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOLUME 94 NUMBER 3 Xtbomas Xincoln Case^ jFunb THOMAS LINCOLN CASEY AND THE CASEY COLLECTION OF COLEOPTERA (With One Plate) BYL. L. BUCHANAN Jureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine,U. S. Department of Agriculture. (Publication 3330) CITY OF WASHINGTON PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION JUNE 8, 1935 BALTIUORB, MD., U. S. A. FOREWORD The Casey Collection of Coleoptera bequeathed to the United StatesNational Museum by Thomas Lincoln Casey, basis of a lifetime ofinvestigation on the part of one of the foremost co
Smithsonian miscellaneous collections . SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOLUME 94 NUMBER 3 Xtbomas Xincoln Case^ jFunb THOMAS LINCOLN CASEY AND THE CASEY COLLECTION OF COLEOPTERA (With One Plate) BYL. L. BUCHANAN Jureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine,U. S. Department of Agriculture. (Publication 3330) CITY OF WASHINGTON PUBLISHED BY THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION JUNE 8, 1935 BALTIUORB, MD., U. S. A. FOREWORD The Casey Collection of Coleoptera bequeathed to the United StatesNational Museum by Thomas Lincoln Casey, basis of a lifetime ofinvestigation on the part of one of the foremost coleopterists inAmerica, rich in types, with carefully selected specimens of a highdegree of perfection in preparation, contains material that is of con-stant and permanent value to other systematic workers in the multi-tude of families that Colonel Casey covered in his extended and pains-taking researches. It is the most important single gift that has cometo the section to which it pertains in the Division of Insects. Few words are necessary to explain that a private collection used byone highly trained and careful individual may be kept and handledsuccessfully under an arrangement that is impossible in a public insti-tution where material is consulted by many research workers. Toconse
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