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Harper's Book for Young Naturalists: A Guide to Collecting and Preparing Speciments (Classic Reprint)
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Attitudes and Arrangement Groups Stand and Mounts Labels Poor Specimens Game Birds CHAPTER VII. BIRDS NESTS AND EGGS 54 Destruction of Eggs Damage Done by Cats Deserted Nests Collecting Eggs Labels Photographs Preparing Nests andE ggs Collecting Nests Protecting andE ncouraging Birds CHAPTER VIII. PIRATES OF THE AIR 62 Part III THE INSECT COLLECTIONS CHAPTER IX. PREPARATION FOR THE INSECT COLLEC- TION 71 Number and Importance of Seasons for Collecting Insects Economic Value of Insects Useful AND Injurious Insects Haunts of Insects Appliances and Tools Required CHAPTER X. INSECTS AND THEIR WAYS 78 Protective Colors Parasites Boring Species Haunts of Beetles Haunts of BX jtterflies Sugaring Collecting Caterpillars Catching Butterflies Rearing Larvae CHAPTER XL PREPARATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF INSECTS 93 Tools and Appliances Mounting aB utterfly Mounting Beetles Labeling Preparing Caterpillars Arranging theS pecimens Mounts PuP iB CHAPTER XII.
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Alpheus Hyatt Verrill was an American author, illustrator, naturalist, and explorer.
Background
Alpheus Hyatt Verrill was born on July 23, 1871, in New Haven, Connecticut. He was the son of Addison Emery Verrill, a zoologist, and Flora Louisa Smith Verrill.
His father, whose specialty was marine invertebrates, was the author of numerous scientific works and books on the Bermuda Islands.
Education
Verrill was educated at the Hopkins Grammar School in New Haven and the Yale School of Fine Arts. He also received special training from his father in zoology.
Career
In 1896, Verrill illustrated the natural history section of Webster's International Dictionary. He also illustrated the Clarendon Dictionary, scientific reports, and many of his own books. His interest in illustration led to his invention in 1902 of the autochrome process of natural-color photography.
While conducting extensive explorations in Bermuda, the West Indies, Guiana, and Central America from 1889 to 1920, Verrill rediscovered in Santo Domingo in 1907 the supposedly extinct Solenodon paradoxus, which resembles a large, stoutly built shrew. He lived in the British West Indies from 1903 to 1906, in British Guiana from 1913 to 1917, and in Panama from 1917 to 1921.
From 1916 to 1928, Verrill participated in ethnologic and archaeological expeditions to Panama, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Surinam. He discovered and excavated the remains of an unknown prehistoric culture in Panama and made a series of oil paintings of South and Central American Indians.
From 1928 to 1932, he made archaeological expeditions in Peru and Bolivia and from 1933 to 1934, attempted to salvage a seventeenth-century Spanish galleon in the West Indies. Much of his study was done as fieldwork for the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, of New York City.