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Review of Dr. Heinrich Karny’s “Der Insektenkorper und 
seine Terminologie.” 
ISG De Lal UGE Me 
(Presented at the meeting of October 5, 1922. 
Dr. Heinrich Karny states, in his introduction, that his object 
in writing “Der Insektenkorper und seine Terminologie” was to 
provide a simple handbook and glossary of insect morphology 
for persons using his tables for the determination of indigenous 
insects. He has done more than that. 
To the student familiar with German he has given a compact, 
simple, little introduction to the morphology and classification 
of insects, such as one would find in the chapter on insects in 
a good text-book of Zoology. To this he has added a compre- 
hensive glossary of 475 entomological terms, both Latin and 
German, with their explanations in German. 
The value to the average American student of science, how- 
ever, is of a different nature. Rarely do you find a young 
entomologist or zoologist who is also a good student of lan- 
guages. And rarer still is the text-book or dictionary of a for- 
eign language which gives the student much material help on 
scientific terms. That is one of the reasons for the misunder- 
standings between the English-speaking and foreign systema- 
tists. They either dislike or are unable correctly to translate 
each other’s descriptions and remarks. 
Dr. Karny’s greater contribution, as I see it, lies in his hav- 
ing provided an elementary text-book of scientific German for 
the student studying entomology. 
Proc. Haw. Ent. Soc., V, No. 2, September, 1923. 
