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Fat Combustion and Metabolic Rate of Flying Locusts (Schistocerca gregaria Forskål, - [PRESENTATION-COPY]
Cambridge, The Royal Society, 1952. 4to. In the original printed wrappers. With author's dedication to front wrapper. Light wear to extremities, otherwise fine. 36, VII pp.
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First edition of Torkel's paper on the metabolism of flying desert locusts. Weis-Fogh here proves that these insects exclusively utilize carbohydrates for flight. Further. ""Weis-Fogh (1952) points out that even in the locust carbohydrate is consumed at the start of flight, and correlates this with the greater ease of mobilization of glycogen rather than fat, which is a more suitable fuel for long-distance, steady fliers"" (Pringle, Insect Flight, 44).
Biology and Physics of Locust Flight I-IV. (I. Basic Principles in Insect Flight. A critical Review. II. Flight Performance of the Desert Locust. III. The Aerodynamics of Locust Flight. IV. Notes on Sensory Mechanism in Locust Flight).
Cambridge, 1956. 4to. 4 volumes, all in orig. printed wrappers - fine condition. Offprints from Philosopphical Transactions of The Royal Society. Series B. Biological Sciences.
First editions of these monumental investigations on the physics of insect flights.
