The Butterfly Book: A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America

xx, 382 pp. 4to. An authoritative work of entomology that helped popularize the study of butterflies and moths in the early 20th century. Includes 48 color plates and 183 illustrations in text. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: "William Jacob Holland (August 16, 1848 – December 13, 1932) was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (1891–1901) and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He was an accomplished zoologist and paleontologist, as well as an ordained Presbyterian minister... Holland was America's great popularizer of butterflies and moths in the first half of the twentieth is century. Holland's The Butterfly Book (1898) and The Moth Book (1903) are both still widely used. Holland donated his private collection exceeding 250,000 specimens to the Carnegie Museum . He supported active collectors worldwide, obtaining major collections from previously uncollected regions between 1890 and 1930 through the efforts of William Doherty, Herbert Huntingdon Smith, H.L. Weber, J. Steinbach, S.M. Klages and many others."