Notes on the Transformations of some South African Lepidoptera [Pts 1 + 2]

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Trans. Zool. Soc. 1901, Vol. XV-Pt 6: 291-3191 + 1903 Vol. XVII-Pt 2: 165-190. Fine chromolithographs by the author, printed by West, Newman. James Farish Malcolm Fawcett born c.1856, studied at the University of Oxford. He served as Lieut-Colonel in the Lancers during the Anglo-Boer war (1899-1902) and used this time to develop a collection of African Lepidoptera. In the introduction to the first paper Fawcett states the publication was 'the result of a collection and observations made during a residence of a year at Ladysmith and Pietermaritzburg, Natal. 'while the delay in publishing the second paper is explained, ‘I have been prevented from devoting any time to it until now, as for the greater part of the intervening period I have been constantly on the march with different columns in the interior of the Transvaal.' His moth collection was acquired by Walter Rothschild for his museum at Tring, Hertfordshire, now part of the Natural History Museum, London.

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2 vols, 4to, orig. wrappers, worn, detached, stitching loose.