284 THE BUTTERFLY VIVAK1UM. 



published in the first two numbers of Dr. Horsfield's 

 beautiful work, which was unfortunately not com- 

 pleted. The extraordinary cession of the Island 

 of Java to the Dutch, after the Avar, put a stop to 

 Dr. Horsfield's researches in that quarter ; as also 

 to the still more important investigations of Sir 

 Stamford Raffles, the discoverer of the now well- 

 known giant " flower " named after him, Mafflesia, 

 and which measured several feet across the disc. 



Abbot, in the southern districts of the United 

 States, especially in Georgia, was equally successful 

 in rearing a great number of Butterflies and Moths 

 from the egg and caterpillar stages ; and in his 

 magnificent work, "The Insects of Georgia," has 

 given a series of remarkably beautiful plates, show- 

 ing the insects in their various stages. It is quite 

 evident, from the manner in which he describes his 

 management of the rearing process, that it might 

 be performed with equal success in England ; and 

 I recommend all who set up a Vivarium, or who 

 have a conservatory that can be kept at a certain 

 temperature, to write to their friends in the Brazils, 

 in India, in China, at the Cape of Good Hope, or 

 in Australia, or Demerara, or any other British 

 settlement, to send them by post eggs of Lepiclop- 

 tera, which can be easily procured from the natives; 



