Excerpt from Instructions for Collecting and Mounting Insects and a Check-List of the Coleoptera of the State of Rhode Island, U. S. A
America is slowly awaking to the fact that it is far wiser to know something of the world we inhabit. Than it is to amass for tunes. When we were boys not a single acquaintance could name a given plant, bird. Mineral or insect. Books were scarce and very expensive The boy of to-day has far greater opportunities....