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Excerpt from An a Colony; Illustrated Essay on of North America
Latter only to be observed by the microscope. The latter class are of the most value; yet, for con venience, some of the former may be considered valid. I discuss, therefore, in this Essay merely the external characters, the sorting of individuals into species, and the literature of the North American Noctuidae. The method of classifying by mere appearance can lead to no scientific result; yet, aufon d, this is the method employed by English lepidopterists, of whom the extreme example was Mr. Walker, and the best, perhaps, Mr. Doubleday. There must be a radical change in this procedure, of which we in the United States are the legatees, and Show that we are, when we lump the genera allied to Hesperia or Eudryas. The microscope must be thoroughly used at every step, and then the dissecting-needle. We are yet employed merely in getting our cabinets into order; and the real results we are to obtain, the connexions of the Noctuidae with the chain of living organisms, are ahead of us in time.
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