CHAPTEE VIII. 

 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE COTTOX WORM 



[This bibliography does not pretend to be complete. It contains all 

 of the papers which have been consulted in the preparation of this part 

 of the report, and, in all probability, almost all articles of value that 

 have ever been published on the subject. Still, a subject of so great 

 economic importance must necessarily have had a vast newspaper litera- 

 ture, which the work of many years could hardly collect and classify ; 

 and, therefore, we have confined ourselves to the principal scientific and 

 agricultural periodicals.] 



DANIEL MCKINNEN. Tour through the British West Indies in 1802-'3 j 



Giving a Particular Account of the Bahama Islands. London, 1804. 



Gives an account of the ravages of the chenille on Acklin's Island, Bahamas, 



and also of the appointing of a commission by the general assembly of the 



islands, in 1801, to investigate the causes for the repeated failure of the cotton 



crop, the principal cause being the ravages of the chenille. 



BRYAN EDWARDS. History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Col- 

 onies in the West Indies. Phila., 1805-'6. 



Contains an account of the ravages of the chenille in the West Indies in 1788 

 and 1794. 



JACOB HUBNER. Zutrage zur Sammlung exotischer Schmetterlinge, 

 bestehend in Bekundigung einzelner Fliegmuster neuer oder rarer 

 nicht europaischer Gattuugen, Augsburg, Verfasser. 1818-1823. 

 Centur. II. 



Contains the original description of Aletla argillacea. For copy see chapter- 

 terl. 



THOMAS SAY. Correspondence relative to the Insect that destroys the 

 Cotton Plant. 



Southern Agriculturalist, I, p. 203, 1827 (not verified). 

 Noctua xylina. Xew Harmony Disseminator, 1830. 

 Reimpr. Transactions of the Agricultural Society of the State of Xew 



York. 1856. 



Reimpr. Say's Entomology of Xorth America, Ed. Le Conte. Vol. I 

 pp. 369-371, 1859. 



Consists of a letter from C. W. Capers to Thomas Say, transmitting speci- 

 mens of the cotton-worm, and Say's reply, descriL.'ng the insect as Xoctua 

 xylina. 



Dr. CHISHOLM. Sir David Brewster's Edinburgh Cyclopedia, article 

 Cotton. Edinburgh, 1830. 



Draws up a description of the chenille in Latin. Gives an extended account 

 of its habits as observed by him in Demerara (British Guiana) in 1301-'2, and 

 proposes, as a remedy, fumigation with sulphur. 

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