Excerpt from Type Specimens of Tipulidae Described by R. W. Doane in the Collection of the California Academy of Sciences I am indebted to him for inviting me to San Francisco for part of June 1974 to study the types, and to him and his wife Madeline for truly extraordinary hospitality during my stay. 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.