Excerpt from The Butterflies of Switzerland and the Alps of Central Europe The difficulty I experienced, when beginning to collect butterflies in Switzerland, in finding out what to look for, and when and where to look, and the discovery that many others were in the same situa tion. First opened my eyes to the necessity for a book with some such scope as the present. No work dealing with the Swiss butterflies as a whole had appeared since Frey's Lepidopteren der Schweiz in 1880, though Lang's Butterflies of Europe was ...
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Excerpt from The Butterflies of Switzerland and the Alps of Central Europe The difficulty I experienced, when beginning to collect butterflies in Switzerland, in finding out what to look for, and when and where to look, and the discovery that many others were in the same situa tion. First opened my eyes to the necessity for a book with some such scope as the present. No work dealing with the Swiss butterflies as a whole had appeared since Frey's Lepidopteren der Schweiz in 1880, though Lang's Butterflies of Europe was published in 1884, and 1885 saw the production of the European Butterflies of Kane, who has become the guide, philosopher and friend of a large and ever-increasing number of British lepidopterists in the Alps and elsewhere. Moreover, not only had new species been discovered since that time, but one of the books was in German, another decidedly expensive and not very portable, and the third, I was informed on trying to obtain a copy, sold out; and in neither of them was the subject of variation, so intensely interesting even to the mere collector, more than lightly touched on. It was not, however, until much later that I even contemplated the possibility of trying to supply the deficiency, an idea which was first suggested to me after the publication 'of some of my papers in the Eiztouz, ologz'st's Record, when I found, to my own great surprise, that my advice was asked, and my Opinion consulted, by entire strangers, even including, during the last two years, some of the best known lepidopterists of Switzerland. This circumstance, together with the fact that no one else seemed willing to throw himself into the breach, must be my excuse for undertaking the task; and, if it be a case of where angels fear to tread, I can only plead that at least I have not rushed in. Often the inclusion, or even the sup pression, of a single line has entailed the close examination of many specimens, and a most unexpected amount of correspondence. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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