Summary
A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America
By
W.J. Holland, Ph.D., D.D., Ll.D.
Chancellor of The Western University of Pennsylvania; Director of The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.; Fellow of the Zoological and Entomological Societies of London; Member of the Entomological Society of France, etc., etc.
With 48 Plates in Color-Photography, Reproductions of Butterflies in the Author’s Collection, and Many Text Illustrations Presenting Most of the Species Found in the United States
New York
Doubleday & McClure Co.
1898
References
The Butterfly Book
By Dr. W.J. Holland
5th Thousand
SAMUEL HARDEN CHURCH, the historian, says: “It is a discovery and a revelation. Think of one man – a busy, scholarly man of affairs – collecting 500,000 butterflies, and then arranging, naming and describing them. What patience, what consecration, that shows! This book is the authoritative expression of the supreme knowledge of a great naturalist. Its plenitude of magnificent color photographs, its hundred of black-and-white drawings, its fascinating composition, and its beautiful manufacture all tempt one to call it THE CHEAPEST AND THE BEST BOOK EVER PUBLISHED.”
Size, 7 3/4x 10 2/3; the colored plates and many text cuts show almost every known American butterfly. Price, $3.00 net.
– The New York Times, New York, NY, 29 Jul 1899
