The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-01-12

| printed In an issue Of the Pennsylvania
School Journal for January and was sent
TO THE Sun, with a request for Republican
ton on this occasion by J. p. McCaskey,
one Of the publishers. Here Is the article
In part:
call him. arrived and conducted his visitor
70 an upper story OF his house, where bis
room ps5on'a auli Of what looked like wardrobe.,
with cases OF books on one side. and pigeon
holes full OF letters, carefully classified. on
parts OF the world who are eminent In DR..
Strecker's domain OF research, and In
wood OF the. University OF oxford. DIR Her.
man .Burmeister. DR., Otto s%tandinger OF
who has almost as many titles as butterfly
A long white table with two gas burners
naturalist has done ali bis work in arrans-
Ing his specimens and making his drawings
at night. after the completion OF he days
work, and he still. treasures the old burner
drawings for his first book. When, he bad
".HS9ei1l'o what Sis DO doo You wa Want St % know fpcw2 gnu
,-All about your collection" answered
what. he said, tell you In one evening
about collection that l have been forty years
In getting together"
A. he spoke he opened with loving Are a
It was fun Of butterflies. each done up In a
paper folded in a thrce-cornered. envelope.
lie took the specimens out and laid them In
a J1r half flled with moist sand, After they
have remained there long enought to become
thoroughly pliable he places them on ~, q
accommodation OF the bodies. The wings
are spread and then fastened down beneath
pieces q p@stcb0ard Thu they are b Iel,
mounted IN the drawers. Of tho cabinet by
thIlstinr, Ions. slender pins through them
put up for shipment to different quarters Of
the. earth. In exchange for specimens that
bad been received from them. These boxes
the Custom House Officers to examine the CON-
tents without opening them. The skull OF
an dp,S SnSi'o over Pe T aaRc % a Weird r on sreS S' to o'G 1Ss
surroundings, and in a room, upstairs the
buckskin garments once worn by the Indian
What IL the most expensive butterfly In
your collection2" asked a visitor,
TO find snv one Of his 10000 treasures, drew
forth a drawer In which rested a pinkish
moth with ~tails,to his hind wingsthat REACHED
Sierra TeonS. Africa is very rare. and the
specimen on which, the visitor gazed u the
9 Fl yo. Example 'Sa Ds&olj IN the ,, %es'e65 Others meI thss eost
Then Dr., strecker exhibited a drawer
containlng a l~9ngsyinged. yellow buoerhy
There are, he said. only a dozen speci-
mems IL existence have three Of them A..
veloped that great collectors know the num-
ber Of specimens Of every important or rare
owned. Away up toward the North Pole
there were found on the second Ross eNpe-
dition some hardy butterflies. a dozen speei-
mems Of which were secured DIR. Strecker
knew in what collections those are. He was
aware that tho British Museum has two.
he read that Lederer's collection was TO be
sold he sent on post-haste to his agent in
Europe, instructing him to buy II Inc
hy now rests in Dir. Strccker's collection.
Yes. We find butterflies verywhere.--
said The collector eSoTR. p hl nTpodaSed a
case OF delicate looking. small white butter
hles. whose wings were .feoked with PINK
ssRISSnc... .omSS from the Swiss and German
ilpS. othors from the Himalayas, 1900 1eet
ehove s"a level. and more from Ine hgeAy
buttsrdies The only ioreisners there are
had 10 depend upon them - gather the rare
varieties. like thoss from Totsienlou
on the other hand, other specimens come
gather * n 18th srsst as.ldultL, although
not from any devotion TO .eienee; DR.
fsrse az an ordinary jSSckknife' and great
the natives entit
extra care In II were specimens. Of q very
ordinary looking speciss called Lyeena
Ess,' and ndw h9 saGc fTG TSeS c"li HS1 once The
Family Of butterflies IN Notwithstanding.
T1gland. Z -oolorcd fellows. blt they too
$50 OF course DR. strecker has specimens
The loss Of two races Of butterflies has
been moro than smply made UP by the dis
c~oyerie- thr' men Ike Or Streoker are con-
,inunlly making q, now ones sometime.
mon az about the same time. Each Will
rive g some, unp~Ionounoeabl2 pane, a.d
upon n~ding thst they are rivals for priority
nuch corr-spondence 90 settling the dl--
pute a. IL wouli tske 90 arrange a treaty
81 psao~ between nation.
gometlmss a rev variety IL named nitef =
narson. b-t The plan doe not Gdnit OF such
fearful ana wqnderful orthogrsphlo oonhlna-
lar pr str~cksr bAs named SEVERAL dis
covertes. but only one 81 them, after a man
,ssR%,G Non gcSia t hts' natural sS
is,. With the kindly but almost q, tying tone
that ar eHpeu employs N hnlnorns = noNlos
We d,ew tSi,h s1st Ia ns,ar. ever ,ufnsd
OUT There were some from, Brazil ~hlah
look nke changeable SIX Held IN ono hsh.
blue Another case cOniAlnsd the beautiful
silver bg''srhss from oen,ta me aha
Tie scldso Crusu- from hslmehslTs made
H. strs1Esf g.r' sIhibtsd. ~, l.If.-,
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n measures a foot acI'ss - Slhgs, aud lhsn'
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fof III was srns.us late, he showed q tfecl-
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