IN the early part of 1868, Mr. W. H. Edwards began the issue of an iconographic serial publication on North American butterflies. 1 Planned as a quarterly, but with no expectation of extending beyond ...
A globe-trotting butterfly enthusiast is staging an exhibition in Tokyo that matches the work of pioneering artist-entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian with real-life specimens from the Suriname jungle.
Plate XXXIX: The Orbed Sulphur (all images from ‘The Butterflies of North America: Titian Peale’s Lost Manuscript, courtesy American Museum of Natural History and Abrams Books) Cover of ‘The ...