Punch,  6 (1844), 105.

Central Agricultural Protection Society

Anon

Genre:

Proceedings, Spoof

Subjects:

Natural History, Education, Collecting


    Notes that one of the society's resolutions is that 'Natural History teaches that butterflies lay eggs' and that 'butterfly hunting, besides being a salutary, and wholesome exercise to youth, is conducive to the extirpation of grubs'.



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