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THIS is a little book of the most popular kind, written with the intention of rendering the collecting of butter flies and moths easy to the youngest of beginners. It is illustrated by eight pages of figures representing apparatus, setting, &c, and the text is divided into twelve chapters, corresponding to the months of the year, each including a lesson on apparatus, collecting, rearing, &c, and a list of some of the principal Lepidoptera which appear in each month. The book may be useful to those for whom it is intended; and we congratulate the author on his good judgment in advising his readers to learn the Latin names, and to forget the English. Here and there a little revision would be useful; thus Entomology is defined as “that branch of natural history which bears special reference to four-winged insects known as butterflies and moths” (no other insects being even mentioned in the book); Cambridgeshire is the only locality given for Papilio machaon and Vanessa antiopa; Lycccna artaxerxes is said to be “generally distributed in England” ; of L. corydon, we read “On chalk cliffs, common”; and moths which come to sugar are said, as a rule, not to come to light.
Entomological Notes for the Young Collector.
By William A. Morley. Pp. viii + 129. (London: Elliot Stock, 1896.)
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K., W. Entomological Notes for the Young Collector. Nature 54, 460 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054460b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/054460b0