The subtitle of this work reads: "Being a Selected
List of the Books and Prints of Diptera Taxonomy from the Beginning of Linnaean
Zoological Nomenclature to the End of the Year 1930; Containing Information
on the Biographies, Bibliographies, Types, Collections, and Patronymic Genera
of the Authors Listed in This Work; Including Detailed Information on Publication
Dates, Original and Subsequent Editions, and Other Ancillary Data Concerning
the Publications Listed Herein."
From the Preface: "The taxonomic literature of flies is enormous.
Since Linnaeus' "Systema Naturae", hundreds of books have been written
concerning the taxonomy of flies. This work attempts to enumerate the works
since Linnaeus and consolidate all that is known of the authors of books on
Diptera, their collections, and to provide detailed bibliographic study on their
dipterological works."
From the Introduction: "This work attempts to present in one place
all bibliographic, biographical, and types and collection information pertaining
to authors of books, pamphlets, plates, and other works that deal with Diptera
taxonomy in whole or in part. Close to 700 titles by some 400 authors are treated
in this work. Multi-volume works such as the various natural history dictionaries
and encyclopedias and works published in parts substantially increase the total
number of "volumes", "livraisons", "parts", etc.
treated in this work (all requiring separate dating), to more than 2,000."
This will be an indispensable reference work for all persons or institutes working
on diptera.