Abstract
IN the two small volumes before us Dr. Scudder, the author of the greatest monograph on any limited butterfly-fauna that has yet appeared (“The Butterflies of the United States and Canada”), has attempted the no less useful task of popularising the subject for the less advanced student.
Brief Guide to the Common Butterflies of the United States and Canada. Being an Introduction to the Knowledge of their Life-histories.
By Samuel Hubbard Scudder. (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1893.)
The Life of a Butterfly. A Chapter of Natural History for the General Reader.
(Same author and publisher.)
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KIRBY, W. Brief Guide to the Common Butterflies of the United States and Canada Being an Introduction to the Knowledge of their Life-histories The Life of a Butterfly A Chapter of Natural History for the General Reader. Nature 48, 338–339 (1893). https://doi.org/10.1038/048338a0
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