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IN a recent letter to NATURE (June 1, p. 837) Dr. R. J. Tillyard directs attention to a chapter on dragonflies in the late Mary Webb's novel “Precious Bane”. He asks if the expressions “ether's mon” or “ether's nild” used in that chapter for the dragonfly are still in use in Great Britain.
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DAVIES, W. Dragonflies in Folk-Lore. Nature 124, 55 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124055b0
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