James Duncan (zoologist) - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

James Duncan was a Scottish

Scotland

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naturalist

Naturalist

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He wrote

with James Wilson Entomologia Edinensis: Or A Description and History of the Insects Found in Ediburgh(1834)
in William Jardines The Naturalist’s Library. Entomology.7 volumes. (Year unknown)
Introduction to Entomology.: Comprehending a General View of the Metamorphoses, William Home Lizars, Samuel Highley, W. Curry, Junr. & Co. 662 pages. (1840).
with William Jardine.Bees: Comprehending the uses and economical management of the honey-bee of Britain and other countries, together with the known wild species. Edinburgh London, W.H. Lizars; Henry G. Bohn. 602 pages. (1859).

James Duncan's papers on Diptera

Diptera

Diptera , or true flies, is the order of insects possessing only a single pair of wings on the mesothorax; the metathorax bears a pair of drumstick like structures called the halteres, the remnants of the hind wings. It is a large order, containing an estimated 240,000 species, although under half...

appeared in the Magazine of Zoology and Botany ( 1, ii: 145-61; iv: 359-68; v: 453-6)

External links

BHL Digitised Foreign Butterflies 1858

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