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AN interesting, though brief, paper entitled “Natural Selection in the Lepidoptera” was read by Mr. Mark L. Sykes before the Manchester Microscopical Society on November 4, 1897, and published in the Transactions for the year (p. 54). The chief interest of the paper consists, as the author points out, in the eight excellent plates by which it is accompanied. These plates contain a very large number of figures reproduced by a photo-mechanical process from the insects themselves. The author has evidently had at his disposal a very large and complete collection, and having selected a number of very fine illustrations he thus makes them available for all other naturalists.
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P., E. Illustrations of Mimicry and Common Warning Colours in Butterflies. Nature 60, 222–225 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/060222e0
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