The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their CollectorsThis entertaining and informative book traces the history of butterfly collection in Britain from the seventeenth century, when the study of natural history had its beginnings. Our knowledge of butterflies is the result of four hundred years of collection and study. However, butterfly collecting is a controversial subject today, and given the present state of butterfly populations, indiscriminate gathering of specimens can no longer be justified. In addition to giving a history of butterfly collecting in Britain, this beautifully illustrated volume describes the equipment used and gives brief biographies of 101 deceased lepidopterists. The book is generously laced with anecdotes and quotations, and includes many contemporary monochrome portraits, accounts of selected species of historical interest, and an appraisal of the effects of collecting and of current conservation policies. Appendixes list all the British and Irish butterflies with their earlier, often confusing, and sometimes fanciful vernacular names, and provide a chronological account of entomological societies, publications, and significant events in the canon of British entomology. The Aurelian Legacy is a fascinating account of the men and women who have made valuable contributions to our knowledge of British butterflies and of their early and often complex history. It is not only a good read but also an excellent reference source for current and future lepidopterists as well as social historians. |
Contents
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS | 11 |
CHAPTER 1 | 25 |
Weapons of the Chase | 55 |
A Company of Serious Thoughtful Men | 93 |
Adrian Hardy Haworth 17671833 | 127 |
Edward Donovan 17681837 | 129 |
Joseph Grimaldi 17791837 | 131 |
William Spence 17831859 | 132 |
Edward Alfred Cockayne 18801956 | 214 |
John William Heslop Harrison 18811967 | 216 |
Philip Bertram Murray Allan 18841973 | 218 |
Norman Denbigh Riley 18901979 | 219 |
Lionel George Higgins 18911985 | 220 |
Henry Charles Huggins 18911977 | 221 |
Arthur Francis Hemming 18931964 | 222 |
Sir Robert Henry Magnus Spencer Saundby 18961971 | 223 |
Richard Weaver fl 17901860 | 133 |
Lætitia Jermyn 17881848 | 136 |
George Samouelle c 17901846 | 137 |
John Curtis 17911862 | 138 |
James Charles Dale 17921872 | 139 |
James Francis Stephens 17921852 | 141 |
James Rennie 17871867 | 142 |
Abel Ingpen 17961854 | 143 |
Frederick William Hope 17971862 | 144 |
Edward Newman 18011876 | 145 |
James Duncan 18041861 | 147 |
John Obadiah Westwood 18051893 | 148 |
Henry Doubleday 18081875 and | 150 |
John Arthur Power 18101886 | 153 |
Francis Orpen Morris 18101893 | 154 |
Frederick Bond 18111889 | 155 |
John William Douglas 18141905 | 156 |
William Buckler 18141884 | 157 |
Charles Stuart Gregson 18171899 | 159 |
Emma Sarah Hutchinson 18201906 | 160 |
Thomas Vernon Wollaston 18221878 | 161 |
Henry Tibbats Stainton 18221892 | 162 |
John Jenner Weir 18221894 | 164 |
Joseph Greene 18241906 | 165 |
George Carter Bignell 18261910 | 166 |
Henry Guard Knaggs 18321908 | 167 |
Joseph William Dunning 18331897 | 168 |
Octavius PickardCambridge 18281917 | 169 |
Charles Golding Barrett 18361904 | 171 |
William West 18361920 | 172 |
James Platt Barrett 18381917 | 173 |
William Henry Harwood 18401917 | 174 |
Albert Brydges Farn 18411921 | 175 |
Thomas Algernon Chapman 18421921 | 176 |
Thomas de Grey 6th Baron Walsingham 18431919 | 177 |
Francis Buchanan White 18421894 | 178 |
William Forsell Kirby 18441912 | 179 |
William Holland 18451930 | 180 |
Henry John Elwes 18461922 | 181 |
Richard South 18461932 | 184 |
Robert Adkin 18491935 | 186 |
Sir Edward Bagnall Poulton 18561943 | 187 |
James William Tutt 18581911 | 189 |
Edward Meyrick 18541938 | 191 |
Frederick William Frohawk 18611946 | 193 |
Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan 18611959 | 197 |
Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine 18621940 | 199 |
Percy May Bright 18631941 | 202 |
Lionel Walter Rothschild 2nd Baron Rothschild of Tring 18681937 | 205 |
Edward Bagwell Purefoy 18681960 | 207 |
Leonard Woods Newman 18731949 | 209 |
Henry Attfield Leeds 18731958 | 211 |
Hon Nathaniel Charles Rothschild 18771923 | 213 |
Edmund Brisco Ford 19011988 | 224 |
Baron Charles George Maurice de Worms 19041980 | 226 |
Russell Frederick Bretherton 19061991 | 227 |
Robert Watson 19161984 | 229 |
Edward Charles PelhamClinton 10th Duke of Newcastle 19201988 | 230 |
Richard Lawrence Edward Ford 19131996 | 231 |
Peter William Cribb 19201993 | 232 |
John Heath 19221987 | 233 |
CHAPTER 4 | 240 |
The Chequered Skipper Carterocephalus palaemon | 241 |
The Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola | 244 |
The Lulworth Skipper Thymelicus acteon | 245 |
The Mallow Skipper Carcharodus alceae | 249 |
The Swallowtail Papilio machaon | 252 |
The Scarce Swallowtail Iphiclides podalirius | 254 |
810 The Clouded Yellows Colias spp | 257 |
The Pale Clouded Yellow Colias hyale | 258 |
Bergers Clouded Yellow Colias alfacariensis | 260 |
The Clouded Yellow Colias croceus | 263 |
The Cleopatra Gonepteryx cleopatra | 266 |
The Bath White Pontia daplidice | 271 |
The Black Hairstreak Satyrium pruni | 274 |
1517 The Coppers Lycaena spp | 277 |
The Large Copper Lycaena dispar | 278 |
The Scarce or Middle Copper Lycaena virgaureae | 285 |
The Purpleedged Copper Lycaena hippothoe | 290 |
The Longtailed Blue Lampides boeticus | 291 |
The Shorttailed or Bloxworth Blue Everes argiades | 293 |
The Northern Brown Argus Aricia artaxerxes | 295 |
The Mazarine Blue Cyaniris semiargus | 297 |
The Large Blue Maculinea arion | 300 |
Albins Hampstead Eye Junonia villida | 309 |
The Painted Lady Cynthia cardui | 311 |
The American Painted Lady Cynthia virginiensis | 316 |
The Large Tortoiseshell Nymphalis polychloros | 318 |
The Camberwell Beauty Nymphalis antiopa | 321 |
The European Map Butterfly Araschnia levana | 327 |
Weavers Fritillary Boloria dia | 329 |
The Queen of Spain Fritillary Argynnis lathonia | 331 |
The Niobe Fritillary Argynnis niobe | 335 |
The Mediterranean Fritillary or Cardinal Argynnis pandora | 338 |
The Glanville Fritillary Melitaea cinxia | 339 |
The Arran Brown Erebia ligea | 343 |
The Monarch or Milkweed Butterfly Danaus plexippus | 346 |
The Blackveined White Aporia crataegi 268 | 354 |
CHAPTER 5 | 364 |
APPENDIX 1 | 375 |
together with their past and present common names | 377 |
APPENDIX 2 | 385 |
Entomological societies publications and significant events | 397 |
409 | |
425 | |
Other editions - View all
The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors Michael A. Salmon,Peter Marren No preview available - 2000 |
The Aurelian Legacy: British Butterflies and Their Collectors Michael A. Salmon,Peter Marren,Basil Harley No preview available - 2000 |
Common terms and phrases
Albin Allan Argynnis Arran Brown Aurelian Society Bath White Black Hairstreak British butterflies British entomology British insects butterflies and moths cabinet Camberwell Beauty captured century Clouded Yellow collection collectors colonies colour Dale described Donovan Doubleday E. B. Ford Edward Newman English Entomologist Entomologist's Rec.J.Var female foodplant Frohawk Haworth Heath Henry Henry Doubleday Heslop history of British illustrated Insectorum Isles J. W. Tutt Jermyn journals Kent Kirby Large Blue Large Copper Large Tortoiseshell larvae later Lepidoptera lepidopterists Lewin Linnaeus Lycaena male Moffet Morris Moses Harris moths moths and butterflies Natural History Museum Natural History Society naturalist Newman & Leeds Niobe Painted Lady Papilio Petiver Petiver's Plate published rare records Rennie Revd Rothschild Scarce Copper Scarce Swallowtail Skipper Society of London South species specimens Stainton Stephens subsequent authors Swallowtail taken Tutt virgaureae Weaver's Fritillary Westwood Wilkes William wings Wood wrote