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IT is very gratifying to notice how frequently, at the present day, large private collections of objects of natural history, when of real importance, find their final resting-place in the British Museum, or in some other great public collection, where their treasures are available for ever, instead of being dispersed on the death of the owner, and by such dispersion alone, losing a large part of their scientific value, besides the probability of a considerable portion being neglected, and sooner or later lost or destroyed.
Catalogue of the Collection of. Palaearctic Butterflies Formed by the late John Henry Leech.
By Richard South Pp. vi + 229; portrait and two coloured plates. (London: Printed by Order of the Trustees of the British Museum, 1902.)
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Catalogue of the Collection of Palaearctic Butterflies Formed by the late John Henry Leech . Nature 67, 583 (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067583a0
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