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Nature 406, 827-828 (24 August 2000) | doi:10.1038/35022630

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The gift of Lepidoptera

James Mallet1

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A literary giant and also a great butterfly systematist.

Butterfly collecting is often seen as a perversion — look no further than John Fowles' The Collector for an example. In Nabokov's Butterflies , which is a collection of extracts from Vladimir Nabokov's novels, poems, letters, interviews and scientific papers on butterflies, Brian Boyd and Robert Pyle have done a good job of dispelling that myth with regard to Nabokov.