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Excerpt from Ants and Their Ways: With Illustrations, and an Appendix Giving a Complete List of Genera and Species of the British Ants Entomological Society, reprinted from the Tramam'om of the Society for December, 1880 - a valuable contribution to the study of the British species. In this work he adopts a specific characteristic for the female of Formica alz'ena which I had brought forward in one of my papers, and which had been recognised as distinctive of the species by my late friend, Mr. Frederick Smith of the British Museum, formerly President of the Entomological Society, an eminent Hymenopterist, to whose unwearied kindness and invaluable assistance I shall ever remain indebted. He, some twenty years ago, first stimulated my interest in the study of British ants into active exercise, and ever encouraged and aided me in my pleasant and profitable investigations, until his much lamented death in January, 1879. I have since secured possession of the greater part of his valuable collection of foreign Amleate imenoptera, in which is numbered about six hundred different species of ants from almost every part of the world, as well as nearly two hundred and seventy species of the allied families Mutz'llz'a'a and lynm'a'a, popularly called Solitary Ants, and classed by Mr. F. Smith under the Mterogyfla. Mr. Smith's manuscript lectures, with their practical and pictorial illus trations, have tended also to enrich my happy experiences of the wonders of the formic world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.