Malapropiana
Anon
Genre: | Drollery |
Subjects: | Collecting, Entomology, Physics |
Reports that Mrs Malaprop is collecting butterflies to understand the theory of 'caterpillary attraction'. Notes that she has been reading Alfred R Wallace's Malay Archipelago, which she calls the 'Himmalayan Archipelago'. | |
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