THE BUTTERFLY BOOK
To learn what I have involved a large outlay of money and much patient study. When, therefore, it was suggested to me to prepare a comprehensive book on the butterflies of the United States and Canada I resolved to undertake the task; if for no other reason, to spare the rising generation of young Americans from the expense and trouble to which I had been subjected in trying to master the subject. I resolved to illustrate the book profusely, using so far as possible the types or identical specimens on which Edwards and others had founded their descriptions. The result was “The Butterfly Book,” and I am now following that up with a small manual entitled “The Butterfly Guide.” Both of these works are illustrated with colored figures. With these books the boys and girls of America are no longer compelled to wade, as I did, through piles of books and pamphlets in order to get the information they desire.