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Odonatological bibliography of Frederick Charles Fraser DATE OF PUBLICATION January 18, 1988 Societas Internationalis Odonatologica Rapid Communications (Supplements) No. 7 Odonatological bibliography of Frederick Charles Fraser Basil Elwood+Montgomery'(t) Bilthoven 1980 PREFACE In the annals of odonatology there are but few students as prolific as the late Lt Col. Dr F.C. FRASER (1880-1963). In addition to his work his general on the phytogeny and classification of the order, in taxonomic works he touched upon all faunal regions, and his regional monographs on the fauna ofIndia, Australasia, Africa and South Ame- rica are much more than merely an indispensable basis for subsequent research. His odonatological oeuvre consists of over 300 papers and treatises, scattered in periodicals of all continents. Although he himself kept a fairly good record of his publications, a complete bibliography has been not avail- never published, and many of his papers are readily able outside the largest specialized libraries. The present bibliography is based on the list compiled by the late Professor Dr B.E. MONTGOMERY, and was subsequently completed Record. All titles from various sources, including the Zoological were checked with Dr KIA UTA’s reprints or xerox copies in Professor B. library; therefore I hope that the bibliography is largely complete and that not many bibliographic errors have escaped our notice. During his years as a surgeon in the Indian Medical Service, Dr Fraser devoted most of his free time to the Indian fauna. His work, largely summarized in the three odonate volumes of the Fauna of British India almost that (1933-1936), still represents everything is so far known on dragonflies of the IndianSubcontinent.Dr Fraser, there- fore, is rightly considered the “Father of Indian Odonatology”. For this reason, and in order to facilitate current work on Indian Odonata, this bibliography is being simultaneously published also in the Special Publications series of the S.I.O. National Office in India. Fraser’s bibliography will certainly stimulate andfacilitate the work of dragonfly students throughout the world, and I feel particularly vi happy that its publication coincides with the opening of the Ninth InternationalSymposium of Odonatology in the South Indian city of Madurai. Pondicherry B.K. Tyagi January, 1988 Chairman of the S.I.O. National Office in India BIBLIOGRAPHY (1917-1970) 1917 The female of the dragonfly, Brachythemis fuscopalliata (Ris)./. Bom- bay nat. Hist. Soc. 25: 282-283, 1 pi. excl. 1918 a Two new Indian dragonflies. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 25: 383-385. 1918 b Indian dragonflies, I. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 25: 454-471, pis 1-13 excl. 1918 influence of insect India. J. c The the monsoons on life in Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 25; 511. 1918 d Indian dragonflies, II. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 25: 608-627. 1918 e Indian dragonflies, III.J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 26: 141-171. 1919 a The larva of Micromerus lineatus Burm. Rec. hid. Mus. 16(2); 197-198, pi. 23 excl. b 1919 Indian dragonflies, IV. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 26: 488-517. 1919 c The undescribed female of an Indian dragonfly, Hemicordulia asiatica. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 26: 685. 1919 d Indian dragonflies, V. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 26: 734-744. 1919 of Odonata from South Annam.d. Siam e Notes on a collection Soc. (nat. Hist.) 3; 455-461. f Indian J. 1919 Notes on some new and other dragonflies. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 26: 874-878. 1919 g Notes on night-flying dragonflies. Rep. Proc. ent. Meet. Pusa 3(3): 895-897. 1919 h Descriptions offour new Indian Odonata. Rec. hid. Mils. 16(7): 451-455. 1919 i Descriptions of new Indian odonate larvae and exuviae. Rec. hid. Mns. 16(7): 459-467, pis 32-37 excl. 1919 in Rec. j Notes on Odonata collected in Seistan and Baluchistan winter. hid. Mus. 18(1): 79-82. 1920 a Indian dragonflies, VI. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 26: 919-932. 1920 b Indian dragonflies, VII. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 27: 48-56. 1920 Some Hist. Soc. 147-150. c new Indian dragonflies. J. Bombay nat. 27: 1920 d Indian dragonflies, VIII. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 27: 253-269. 1920 e Notes on Indian dragonflies. Rec. hid. Mus. 19(2): 31-33. 1920 f larva from Mem. hid. Description of a rhinocyphine Shillong. Dept Agr. (Ent.) 7: 13-14, 1 pi. excl. 1921 a Indian dragonflies, IX. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 27: 492-498. 1921 b A list of dragonflies from Mahableshwar. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 27: 540-544. 2 X. /. Hist. Soc. 27: 673-691. 1921 c Indian dragonflies, Bombay nat. 1921 d Indian dragonflies, XI. /. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 28: 107-122. 1921 e Report on a collection of dragonflies from the Lao Country. J. Siam Soc. (nat. Hist.) 4: 161-165, pi. 3 excl. Indian XII./. Hist. 28: 481-492. 1922 a dragonflies, Bombay nat. Soc. 1922 b Indian dragonflies, XIII./. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 28: 610-620. of from 4: 1922 c A collection dragonflies Bangkok. /. Siam Soc. (nat. Hist.) 231-238, pi. 10 excl. 1922 d Dragonfly collectingin India. /. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 28: 889-898. 1922 Indian XIV. /. Hist. 28; 899-910. e dragonflies, Bombay nat. Soc. Odonata from Hills. Ind. Mus. 1 1922 f New and rare Nilgiri Rec. 24(1); 1-9, pi. excl. New and Indian Odonata in the Pusa Collection. Mem. 1922 g rare Dept Agr. Ind. (Ent.) 7(7): 39-77, pis 6-8 excl. h Ind. 1922 Further notes on Rhinocypha larvae. Mem. Dept Agr. (Ent.) 7(7): 79-81, pis 9-10 excl. The of Rec. Ind. Mus. 24 1922 i ( — & C. DOVER), dragonflies Barkuda Island. (3): 303-311. 1922 j A list of dragonflies recorded from the Indian Empire with special refer- V. ence to the collection of the Indian Museum, Gomphidae. Appendix. Rec. Ind. Mus. 24(3); 415-426, pi. 11 excl. 1922 k /. Soc. 28: Notes on new and rare Indian dragonflies. Bombay nat. Hist. 698-702. 1923 a Indian dragonflies, XV./. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 29: 36-47. 1923 b Dragonfly collecting in India, 11. /. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 29: 48-69. 1923 c Indian dragonflies, XVI. /. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 29: 324-333. 1923 d Dragonfly collecting in India, HI./. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 29: 474-481. 1923 Soc. e Indian dragonflies, XVII. /. Bombay nat. Hist. 29: 659-680, pis 1-2 excl. 1923 f Dragonfly collecting in India, IV./. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 29: 741-756, pis 1-3 excl. 1923 A second in the Pusa g note on Odonata Collection. Mem. Dept Agr. Ind. (Ent.) 8(3): 29-34. h The Odonata 1923 fauna of the Palni and Nilgiri Hills. Rep. Proc. ent. Meet. Pusa 5: 365-368. 1924 results of the Sladen Trust Yunnan a Zoological Percy Expedition to under the leadership of Professor J.W. Gregory, F.R.S. (1922). Odonata. /. Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (N.S.) 19; 447-464. 1924 b Report on a collection of dragonflies (Odonata) from the Andaman Islands. Rec. Ind. Mus. 26(5): 409-413, pi. 24 excl. 1924 A of c survey the Odonata fauna of western India with special remarks on the of genera Macromia and Idionyx and descriptions thirty new species. Rec. Ind. Mus. 26(5): 423-522, pis 25-27 excl. 1924 d Indian dragonflies, XVIII. /. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 29: 982-1006, pis 1-2 excl. 1924 e New additions to the Odonata fauna of India. /. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 30: 48-53. 1924 f Indian dragonflies, XIX. /. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 30; 106-117, pi. 1 excl. in Pusa Mem. Ind. 1924 g Notes on Indian Odonata the Collection. Dept Agr. (Ent.) 8(8): 69-87, pis 9-10 excl. 3 1925 A the of a preliminary report on dragonflies Samoa. Trans, ent. Soc. Land. 1924(3/4); 429-438. 1925 b The de- true position of the genera Orogomphus and Chlorogomphus as and monstrated by a study of the larvae of O. atkinsoni and O. campioni by a comparison of the latter with the larva of Anotogaster nipalensis (Odonata). Rec. hid. Mus. 27(5): 423-429, pis 9-10 excl. 1925 c Indian dragonflies, XX. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 30; 397-405, pi. 1 excl. 1925 d Indian dragonflies, XXI. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 30: 657-663, pi. 1 excl. 1925 e Indian dragonflies, XXII. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 30; 846-857, 1 pi. excl. 1926 Two Trans, 74: 355- a new dragonflies (Order Odonata). ent. Soc. Loud. -359. b 1926 A remarkable new dragonfly from Samoa. Trans, ent. Soc. Bond. 74: 505-507, pi. 49 excl. 1926 c Indian dragonflies, XXIII. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 31: 158-171, 1 pi. excl. 1926 d Indian dragonflies, XXIV. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 31: 408-426, pis 1-2 excl. 1926 e Indian dragonflies, XXV. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 31: 733-747, pi. 1 excl. 1926 f A revision of the genus Zygonyx Selys. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 31: 762-769. 1926 A revision of the Mus. g genus Idionyx Selys. Rec. hid. 28(3); 195-208, pis 8-10 excl. 1926 h Two new species of dragonfly from the Darjeeling district. J. Darjeeling nat. Hist. Soc. 1: 31-33. 1926 i Notes on a collection of dragonflies (order Odonata) from the Dutch of the East Indies and descriptions four new species from neighbouring continent. Treubia 8: 467-494. 1927 a Notes on a collection of dragonflies (Odonata) from Siam. J. Siam Soc. (nat. Hist.) 7(2): 83-92. 1927 b Indian Descriptions of twenty new dragonflies.
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    Stop the Toad Foundation 2008 Great Toad Muster REPORT Contact: Kim Hands Campaign Manager Stop The Toad Foundation Inc 0400 130 397 [email protected] www.stopthetoad.org.au Stop The Toad Foundation (Inc) 2008 Great Toad Muster REPORT Stop The Toad Foundation (Inc) 2 Delhi St West Perth Western Australia 6005 T: 08 9420 7266 F: 08 9420 7273 www.stopthetoad.org.au [email protected] THANKS AND ACKOWLEDGEMENTS The Stop The Toad Foundation would like to thank the following groups and individuals for their support during the Great Toad Muster and/or throughout the year: PRINCIPAL SUPPORTERS • ABN Foundation • Lottery west • Skywest • Kimberley TAFE OTHER SUPPORTERS • Australia’s North-West Tourism • Fremantle Ports • Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) • GVEHO program under Australian Federal Government • Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Service • Toll West • Panoramic Resources Mining • Barwick Estates • Matso’s Broome Brewery • Kununurra Hotel • Northern Land Council - Caring For Country Unit • FrogWatch NT • Gunamu Tourist Park Timber Creek • Northern Habitat • Conservation Council WA • Kimberley Towns and Communities (Broome, Derby, Fitzroy Crossing, Halls Creek, Kununurra and Wyndham) PHOTOGRAPHY The Foundation would like to thank the following people for allowing their photographs to be used in this publication: Graeme Sawyer, Russell Gueho, Russell Greig, Paola Diaz & Kim Hands. 2 CONTENTS 1 Executive Summary...................................................................... 4 2 Introdution & Background