NEWFOUNDLAND BUTTERFLIES, COLLECTED BY P. H. GOSSE

• Published in: The Canadian Entomologist
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1883
• Subjects: Insect Science; Molecular Biology; Physiology; Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics; Structural Biology; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.4039/ent1543-3; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0008347X00143925

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.