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IT is not much more than two centuries ago since it was possible in England to regard a taste for collecting insects as presumptive evidence of lunacy; and a century ago Kirby and Spence thought it necessary to reply to the current objections to entomology, which represented it as a trifling pursuit, concerned chiefly with nomenclature, and leading to cruelty.
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Lord Walsingham's Collection of Micro-Lepidoptera . Nature 82, 194–195 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/082194a0
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