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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Sphinx Vespiformis: An Essay
Edward Newman
66 pages~1 hr 19 min read8 chapters$4.99
A single wasp-mimicking moth becomes the occasion for a sweeping essay on how nature is divided. Edward Newman works from the primary divisions of the natural world down through the classes of insects to the Lepidoptera and Linnaeus's puzzling Sphinx. A Victorian naturalist thinking aloud about classification. Small subject, large questions.
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8 chapters
- 1SPHINX VESPIFORMIS: AN ESSAY
- 2PREFACE.
- 3ERRATA.
- 4ON THE PRIMARY DIVISION OF NATURE.
- 5ON THE CLASSES OF INSECTA.
- 6ON THE SUB-CLASSES, c. OF LEPIDOPTERA.
- 7Natural Divisions to which the Sphinx Vespiformis of Linnæus is referable.
- 8Footnotes
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