TRANSCRIBER’S NOTEIllustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations.Illustrations without captions have had a description added, this is denoted with parentheses.The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.Pg 9: “TEE PLACE OF” replaced with “THE PLACE OF”Pg 48: Positions of “e” and “f” labels were swappedPg 91: “minature” replaced with “miniature”Pg 151: Duplicate “its” removed from “by its its plain”Pg 163: “It we were” replaced with “If we were”pg 186: “Plate A, Fig. 10” corrected to “Plate B, Fig. 10”Pg 189: “glacus” replaced with “glaucus”Pg 215: “Hylephilahy plæus” replaced with “Hylephila phyleus”
TRANSCRIBER’S NOTEIllustrations in this eBook have been positioned between paragraphs and outside quotations.Illustrations without captions have had a description added, this is denoted with parentheses.The index was not checked for proper alphabetization or correct page references.Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources.Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book.Except for those changes noted below, all misspellings in the text, and inconsistent or archaic usage, have been retained.Pg 9: “TEE PLACE OF” replaced with “THE PLACE OF”Pg 48: Positions of “e” and “f” labels were swappedPg 91: “minature” replaced with “miniature”Pg 151: Duplicate “its” removed from “by its its plain”Pg 163: “It we were” replaced with “If we were”pg 186: “Plate A, Fig. 10” corrected to “Plate B, Fig. 10”Pg 189: “glacus” replaced with “glaucus”Pg 215: “Hylephilahy plæus” replaced with “Hylephila phyleus”