PREFACE IN the following pages I have tried to give, for the benefit of those commencing a collection of British lepidoptera, a short sketch of the various methods of going to work. No originality whatever is claimed for anything the book contains, save in so far that no method is advocated which I have not employed extensively myself during the last five-and-twenty years. Methods of Moth Collecting the objects of any collection of lepidoptera must necessarily vary in accordance with the temperament and ambitions of the individual collector. In some cases it is probable that a person starting a collection never either at the beginning or afterwards stops to think whether he or she has any definite object in view. In most cases the collection will have been begun in schooldays, when at some period or other a great number of us are seized by the desire to collect. Some prefer cigarette cards or stamps. But schoolboys and girls who have been brought up to love the country are almost...

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