Colour plate by W. Spry in \Instructions for Collecting, Rearing, and Preserving British and Foreign Insects\" by Abel Ingpen. Published by William Sm

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Colour plate by W. Spry in \Instructions for Collecting, Rearing, and Preserving British and Foreign Insects\" by Abel Ingpen. Published by William Smith, London. Second edition 1839. This diagram shows the range ofnet types a keen entomologist might have at his disposal. The first edition emerged in 1827 when Darwin was at his most fanatical in insect collecting at Cambridge. For him and fellow beetle collector Leonard Jenyns this book remained a guide."

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