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1. Audubon's butterflies, moths and other studies

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2. A Guide to Nabokov's Butterflies and Moths 2001 by Dieter E. Zimmer

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1. Audubon's butterflies, moths and other studies

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Часть текста: the "Birds" folio. At present, however, I am concerned only with Audubon's sketchbook ("a fifteen-page pioneer art rarity" belonging to Mrs. Kirby Chambers of New Castle, Kentucky) from which Miss Ford has published drawings of butterflies and other insects in a handsome volume padded with additional pictorial odds and ends and an account of Audubon's life. The sketches were made in the 1820s. Most of the lepidoptera which they burlesque came from Europe (Southern France, I suggest). Their scientific names, supplied by Mr. Austin H. Clark, are meticulously correct-- except in the case of one butterfly, p. 20, top, which is not a Hamaeris but a distorted Zerynthia. Their English equivalents, however, reveal some sad editorial blundering: "Cabbage," p. 23, and "Miller," p. 91, should be "Bath White" and "Witch," respectively; and the two moths on p. 64 are emphatically not "Flesh Flies." In an utterly helpless account of the history of entomological illustration, Miss Ford calls Audubon's era "scientifi-cally unsophisticated." The unsophistication is all her own. She might have looked up John Abbot's prodigious representations of North American lepidoptera, 1797, or the splendid plates of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century German lepidopterists, or the rich butterflies that enliven the flowers and fruit of the old Dutch Masters. She might have traveled back some thirty-three centuries to the times of Tuthmosis IV or Amenophis III and, instead of the obvious scarab, found there frescoes with a marvelous Egyptian butterfly (subtly combining the pattern of our Painted Lady and the body of an African ally of the Monarch). I cannot speak with any authority about the beetles and grasshoppers in the Sketchbook, but the butterflies are certainly inept. The exaggerated crenulation of hindwing edges, due to a naive artist's doing his best to...

2. A Guide to Nabokov's Butterflies and Moths 2001 by Dieter E. Zimmer

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Часть текста: by the author and made available in a limited number of copies. The amount quoted covers at most 75 % of the cost of printing, binding and shipping. Sorry no discount of any kind can be given. The book can be ordered from the author or through booksellers. A German bookseller specialized in serving university libraries abroad is Otto Harrassowitz in Wiesbaden. If ordering from the author, payment within Europe by bank transfer to giro account free of charges to the recipient; payment from the U. S. and Canada by personal cheque drawn on an American bank. Normal mode of shipment is Economy Mail (which is not surface mail as one might suppose but air mail too; however, it may take longer than Global Premium Mail). For Global Premium shipment overseas (that is the fastest kind of air mail), a surcharge of 20 US $ will apply (rate valid as of July 1, 2001). Please do not mail me any cheque before you receive the invoice which will explain to whom it should be made payable. (If made payable to me, I would have to pay bank commissions exceeding the amount of the cheque.) Orders by e-mail or mail to the author and publisher. mail@d-e-zimmer.de Dieter E. Zimmer, Claudiusstrasse 6, D-10557 Berlin, Germany TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction (7) Why? What For? (9) - Writer and Scientist (11) - Butterflies, Not Symbols (14) - Numbers and Names (16) - What's in a Name (17) - Basic Subdivisions (18) - Clustering Animals into Taxa (20) - The Higher Taxa (24)- Sources of Incertainty (26) - The Code (28) - The Author's Name (32) - Popular Names (34) On Pronunciation (35) -...