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- Record Id:
- 040-000454389
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-000375067
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000228.0x000366
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 86626
- Title:
- Insect flight
- Scope & Content:
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Some items are undated.
Folder marked 'Insect Flight'.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from B. Hocking (Department of Entomology, University of Alberta); 30 Sep 1953. Enclosed is a manuscript entitled 'Insect flight – a record of two informal meetings at the Zoological Laboratory, Downing Street, Cambridge, England'.
- Letter to Maynard Smith from John Warham; 24 May 1955. Signed.
- Handwritten notes and diagrams relating to insect flight.
- Handwritten notes relating to the relationship of power required and linear dimensions.
- Handwritten manuscript 'The aerodynamics of insect flight' (multiple copies).
- Photograph.
- Tables with figures.
- Handwritten notes relating to Sotovalta, 'The Essential Factor Regulating the Wing-Stroke Frequency of Insects', Annales Zoologici Societatis Zoologicae Botanicae Fennicae Vanamo, 15 (1952), 1-67.
- Handwritten notes relating to the density of air.
- Handwritten notes relating to scale and insect flights.
- Handwritten notes relating to Sotovalta ratios.
- August Krogh and Torkel Weis-Fogh, 'A roundabout for studying sustained flight of locusts', Journal of Experimental Biology, 29 (1952), 211-218.
- Weis-Fogh, Torkel, 'Weight economy of flying insects', Proccedings of the Transactions of the Ninth International Congress of Entomlogy, 1 (1952), 341-347.
- Weis-Fogh, T., 'The ventilatory mechanism during flight of insects in relation to the call for oxygen', Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Zoology held in 1953, 1956, 283-285.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-000375067
036-000375071
040-000454389 - Is part of:
- Add MS 86569-86840 : John Maynard Smith Archive
Add MS 86597-86830 : Subject files
Add MS 86626 : Insect flight - Hierarchy:
- 032-000375067[0003]/036-000375071[0031]/040-000454389
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add MS 86569-86840
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 sub-folder
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1952
- End Date:
- 2001
- Date Range:
- 1952-2001
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Material Type:
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- Legal Status:
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