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Nature 410, 1030 (26 April 2001) | doi:10.1038/35074168

A passion for butterflies

A nineteenth-century collection of the Large Blue (Maculinea arion), which became extinct in Britain in the late 1970s, one of the many fine illustrations of butterflies and those who studied them in The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and their Collectors (by Michael Salmon, Harley Books: 2000, £30.00).