Salmon, Michael A.|||Marren, Peter|||Harley, Basil
Although the collecting of butterflies is today an emotive subject, it is impossible to separate a history of British butterflies from a history of their collectors, without whose activities our knowledge of the identification, occurrence, distribution, and variation of British butterflies would be much the poorer. Liberally laced with contemporary quotations, this book brings to life the past three hundred years of butterfly study, with details of early societies, collecting equipment, biographies of 101 deceased lepidopterists, with portraits where available, as well as the chequered...
Although the collecting of butterflies is today an emotive subject, it is impossible to separate a history of British butterflies from a history of th...
