The Butterflies Of The Eastern United States And Canada With Special Reference To New England

Author : Samuel Hubbard Scudder
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ISBN 13 : 9781332470808
Total Pages : 798 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada, Vol. 1 written by Samuel Hubbard Scudder and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Butterflies of the Eastern United States and Canada, Vol. 1: With Special Reference to New England The present work originated in a plan, devised thirty years ago by the students of Professor Louis Agassiz, to describe within the compass of a series of volumes all the animals of New England, with special reference to their life histories. To me was assigned, among other subjects, the volume on Lepidoptera, and though the original scheme never passed beyond the stage of discussion (and the design of a titlepage by one of our number, which I still preserve), it has borne fruit in not a few additions to our knowledge of "The Zoology of New England," by my associates, - Messrs. Allen, Hyatt, Morse, Packard, Putnam, Shaler, and Verrill, to mention the living only. Twenty years ago the present work was definitely planned, announced, and begun, and the greater part of it has been written for fifteen years; but with the increase of our knowledge, nearly all the histories of the species have been completely rewritten within the past few years, in the intervals of work in other directions. This delay has not been to follow the sage advice of Horace, - "Si quid tamen olim Scripseris, in Maeci descendat indicis auris, Et patris et nostras, nonumque premature in annum, Membranis intus positis: " but has been caused rather by the "res angusta domi," preventing earlier accomplishment of my desire. Although very much more extended than I at first contemplated, especially in the matter of illustration, the work as completed is still tor short of what I could wish; insufficient attention, for instance, has been paid to the differences in the form and clothing of the head in the various stages of the caterpillar, though the illustrations of the same will partly stone for this omission. I had also intended to include a description of the minute texture of the integument of the caterpillar, and made many preparations for the purpose, but not enough to warrant the introduction of this material. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.