The Butterfly Book: A Popular and Scientific Manual, Describing and Depicting All the Butterflies of the United States and Canada
The Butterfly Book: A Popular and Scientific Manual, Describing and Depicting All the Butterflies of the United States and Canada
The Butterfly Book: A Popular and Scientific Manual, Describing and Depicting All the Butterflies of the United States and Canada

The Butterfly Book: A Popular and Scientific Manual, Describing and Depicting All the Butterflies of the United States and Canada

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xii, 424 pp. 77 color plates, 198 illustrations in text. Holland was a lepidopterist, zoologist, and paleontologist, and helped popularize butterflies and moths in the United States. His private collection of over a quarter million specimens currently resides at the Carnegie Museum. Includes: Prefaces; Table of Contents; Introduction: The Life-History of Anatomy of Butterflies; The Capture, Preparation, and Preservation of Specimens; The Classification of Butterflies; Books About North American Butterflies; The Book: The Butterflies of North America North of Mexico; Digression and Quotations.