The Naturalist always begins at the beginning and traces family,
sub-family, genus and species. He deals in Latin and Greek terms
of resounding and disheartening combinations. At his hands anatomy
and markings become lost in a scientific jargon of patagia, jugum,
discocellulars, phagocytes, and so on to the end of the volume.
For one who would be a Naturalist, a rare specimen indeed, there are
many volumes on the market. The list of pioneer lepidopterists
begins authoritatively with Linnaeus and since his time you can
make your selection from the works of Druce, Grote, Strecker,
Boisduval, Robinson, Smith, Butler, Fernald, Beutenmuller, Hicks,
Rothschild, Hampson, Stretch, Lyman, or any of a dozen others.
Possessing such an imposing array of names there should be no
necessity to add to them. These men have impaled moths and
dissected, magnified and located brain, heart and nerves. After
finishing the interior they have given to the most minute exterior
organ from two to three inches of Latin name.
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