Download or read book The Aurelian Legacy written by Michael A. Salmon and published by Brill. This book was released on 2000 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberally laced with contemporary quotations, this book brings to life the past three hundred years of butterfly study, with details of early societies, collecting equipment, biographies of 101 deceased lepidopterists, with portraits where available, as well as the chequered history in Britain of some 35 species of butterfly.