Book Description

Excerpt from The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation, Vol. 17: January to December, 1905 I suspect the best collecting-ground is the edge of the pinewood in which the Kurhaus Hotel 18 actually situated, a fine morning spent in idling right round the edge of the pines, from the Kurhaus down to the Hetel du Mont Collon and back again, gives many things, in fact, all the species obtainable, except the really high alpine insects - Erebt'a glacialis, E. Gory/e, Polyommatus pheretes, and one or two others - whilst some are to be taken here that occur nowhere beyond, holding the warm sheltered sides of the wood as their last outposts up the valley, extending neither up the slopes towards the Aiguilles Rouges, nor along the bed of the valley towards the Arolla glacier, whilst, on the other hand, the small mountain stream that rushes down here brings many of the highest alpine plants to this level, and so encourages many species to extend downwards at this point, that are only to be found at a much higher elevation on the more exposed slopes around. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.