An Article of Great Interest to Lovers 

 of Natural History, 



Entitled " Nature Stucly and War, " appears in today's issue of " The 

 Times Literary Supplément. " It is prompted by the " Etudes de Lépi- 

 duptérologie Comparée, " of M. Charles Oberthiir, of Rennes, a work 

 which, in the opinion of the uriter, ofïers to those who love nature for 

 nature's sake alone a bountiful fîeld as well for the harvcst of the quiet 

 eye as for the scientific search after truth. 



Rfiul 'IMie rimes [jteinty Supplciiwni. 



TJïE TJMES, Literary Supplément 



London, Thursday, Aiigust 20, 1920. 



Nature Study and War 



Dunng the war the publishers' columns m the hterary peno- 

 dicals and weeklies were gradually transformed. The otitput of 

 the Press reflected the times. ReUgion, poetry and, as the several 

 campaigns proceeded, war bocks superseded m number even the 

 noveL The gentle Uterature of nature shrank until, in some 

 cases, it seemed altogether to disappear. Conspicuous among the 

 absentées were the familiar books of nature study, and even more 

 so original works and reprmts, new éditions and resuscitations 

 of the classic authors of natural-history subjects. The epoch 

 immediately preceeding the war is rich in popular scientific publi- 



