Quote – Holmes on ‘Entomology’
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
” I suppose you are an entomologist ? “
” Not quite so ambitious as that, sir. I should like to put my eyes on the individual entitled to that name.
No man can be truly called an entomologist,
sir; the subject is too vast for any single human intelligence to grasp.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
The Poet at the Breakfast Table.
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August 23, 2009 at 2:05 am
In Arthur Conan Doyle’s story, The Hound of the Baskervilles, the villain is a naturalist who collects butterflies, making him an “evil” entomologist.
hmmmm
August 23, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Hmm, so I have been ‘evil’…a valid point of view as far as the butterflies and other insects were concerned.
August 24, 2009 at 3:07 am
Yes, poor butterflies. I have something evil to butterflies at one time. But no more, I just look as they fly past. There is one is a greenish – ghia/doodhi colour that I like. Apart from the more common yellow one. Loads of them about at this time of the year.
August 24, 2009 at 3:24 am
The yellows are Grass Yellows (Eurema spp). The gree-white ones are Emigrants (Catopsilia spp). Both are Pieridae, a family of sun-loving butterflies commonly called as the Whites and Yellows.
August 26, 2009 at 8:37 am
Ya, lots to keep learning!