NEWFOUNDLAND BUTTERFLIES, COLLECTED BY P. H. GOSSE
Editor Can. Ent.: Dear Sir,—I send you herewith certain notes of observations made 50 years ago, by the eminent naturalist, Philip H, Gosse, F. R. S., &c., on Butterflies of Newfoundland. I received a letter from Mr. Gosse, in the spring of 1882, from which I extract as follows: “I began the stu...
Published in: | The Canadian Entomologist |
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Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press (CUP)
1883
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Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent1543-3 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X00143925 |
Summary: | Editor Can. Ent.: Dear Sir,—I send you herewith certain notes of observations made 50 years ago, by the eminent naturalist, Philip H, Gosse, F. R. S., &c., on Butterflies of Newfoundland. I received a letter from Mr. Gosse, in the spring of 1882, from which I extract as follows: “I began the study of Insects in 1832, when I was a clerk in a mercantile house at Carbonear, Newfoundland. For more than three years I pursued the study with great ardor and industry, making careful drawings of nearly every species I found, of all orders, often magnified. These drawings, in a small 4to book, I still possess, and for minute care I think they are in nowise inferior to any that I have executed in later years. |
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