Nature Imitated Accurately 



of forty -six flies commonly found upon 

 the English streams, which formed a 

 large part of the insect food of their 

 trout. Very careful drawings of these 

 insects were made, and in the book 

 the plates were hand-colored to re- 

 semble the natural fly in every partic- 

 ular. Side by side with the natural 

 insects were plates of the imitation 

 flies, also hand-colored. In 1886, Mr. 

 Halford published one of his celebrated 

 works, "Floating Flies and How to 

 Dress Them," and in this book were 

 shown ninety artificial patterns, all 

 dressed from the natural insects, and 

 in the de luxe edition hand-colored. 

 In 1897, Mr. Halford gave to anglers 

 another work, his "Dry-Fly Ento- 

 mology," containing one hundred pat- 

 terns. The great accuracy aimed at 

 by Mr. Halford in all his entomological 

 studies may be understood when we 



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