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

Editore: William Lay, London, 1858

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xii, 288, 8 hand-coloured engraved plates. . HB. cr. 8vo, orig. dec. cloth, gt, elaborate gilt design to front board, aeg, some wear to spine corners and joints, head/foot of spine frayed. Contents clean and crisp. Hand-coloured plates clean and bright. This work, published during the peak of Victorian interest in natural history, instructed the reader how to build, stock and maintain an insect vivarium. The coloured frontispiece illustrates a highly decorative glass and zinc case, containing aquatic, land and flying insects. This idea was clearly influenced by the growing popularity of aquaria and ornamental fern cases. These had become part of the furniture of an educated, middle-class Victorian home. Indeed, Humphreys describes the structure of the "insect home" as a drawing room object and clearly expected it to provide both scientific and aesthetic interest.Most of the book concentrates on the general biology of insects and how to collect and rear them. Various suggestions were made concerning the internal decoration of the case including; "pretty pebbles", "tasteful rock work", ornamental ferns and "small plants in flower". Tin or zinc tubes containing water were placed in the earth "in which stalks of different kinds of plants required for food of the caterpillars may be plunged". To keep the "miniature lake" clear, water snails and aquatic plants were recommended. Humphreys also wrote that to give the water a sense of life and movement even sticklebacks could be added!! Insects suitable for such a "little crystal palace" included species of dragonfly, the water beetle Hydrophilus piceus, the privet hawkmoth Sphinx ligustri, the clouded yellow Colias croceus, the peacock butterfly Inachis io and the orange tip Anthocaris cardamines. (Harvey, J., 1989, AES Bulletin, 47).…

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Titolo
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
Autore
Humphreys, H.N.
Editore
William Lay, London
Anno di pubblicazione
1858
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Pemberley Books - Established 1989. Specialist Natural History Booksellers, providing a mail order service for individual, museums, research institutes, universities and libraries around the world. We supply new, used and antiquarian books on all aspects of natural history, particularly specialising in entomology. We also have a specialist bookshop in Iver (just west of London, close to M25, Iver Rail Station and Heathrow Airport) We list only books which are immediately available from stock on ABE, but can supply many other books to order.…

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