The Butterfly Vivarium, or Insect Home

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Excerpt from The Butterfly Vivarium, or Insect Home: Being an Account of a New Method of Observing the Curious Metamorphoses of Some of the Most Beautiful of Our Native Insects, Comprising Also a Popular Description of the Habits and Instincts of Many of the Insects of the Various Classes Referred ToObserving, conveyed but little information to the mind, and that it was the origin Of the name it self, and its reference to other names, and to other groups of names, and the reason for their being so grouped, which was the kind of knowledge most likely to enable me to organize the information I was acquiring, and to take that general view of the subject which alone gives to a student the power to appreciate duly each separate part.With this view I have endeavoured to show how the first glimpses Of our knowledge of insects gradually grew up into an important branch of science, by successive improvements in the various methods Of classification adopted at different periods.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.