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Volume 1, Issue 2

Thursday, 13 May 2004

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In this issue:
— News
— History of lepidopterology

Leps e-News
Volume 1, Issue 2
13 May 2004

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NEWS [View]

It is our pleasure to announce a new section, titled ‘News,’ featuring the last stories about butterflies and moths on the WWW. The part B-files represents our own content. The stories from the world press appear under the title WWW headlines. Updated daily!

B-FILES [View]

Antique butterflies available digitally
— Part of one of the world’s oldest biological collections, Linnaeus’s butterfly type specimens, is now freely available in digital format... [Full story]

The first Bulgarian lepidopterist recognised
— A new exposition, titled ‘Ruse’s naturalists,’ has just been opened at the National Museum of Natural History, Sofia... [Full story]

Kresna Gorge, butterflies... and a motorway
— The butterflies living in the picturesque Kresna Gorge can be considered threatened... [Full story]

Butterflies displayed at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
— Under the title ‘Zoology — science & practice,’ the Institute of Zoology shows some of its treasures... [Full story]

WWW HEADLINES [View]

Open house encourages having butterflies
State casts net for gypsy moths
Fly-by-night armyworm moths raise invasion alert
Gypsy moths back in droves
500 Rare Butterflies Discovered in Ore.
Fremont festival allows children to mingle with insects...

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HISTORY OF PIERIDOLOGY [View]

Abadjiev, S. A., Hans Fruhstorfer (1866—1922)
— Hans Fruhstorfer was born in Passau, Germany on 7 March 1866. He was a man of genial disposition and of untiring energy and his boundless entomological enthusiasm was devoted almost entirely to the butterflies... [Read more]

Abadjiev, S. A., Henry Rowland-Brown (1865—1921)
— Henry Rowland-Brown was born at Woodridings, Pinner, on 19 May 1865. He was educated at Rugby; at school he was a noted athlete, and winner of the record quarter-mile... [Read more]

Abadjiev, S. A., Frederick DuCane Godman (1834—1919)
— Frederick Godman was one of the great naturalists in the mid-Victorian epoch... [Read more]

Abadjiev, S. A., Henry John Elwes (1846—1922)
— Henry John Elwes was one of the greatest traveller-naturalists who have done so much to increase our knowledge of natural history in all branches... [Read more]

Abadjiev, S. A., Charles Oberthür (1845—1924)
— Born at Rennes in 1845, Charles Oberthür was a son of the founder of the celebrated printing firm which bore his name, and of which for many years he was chairman... [Read more]