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Margaret Fountaine, English lepidopterist and diarist (died 1940)

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Margaret Fountaine

British entomologist, scientific illustrator and diarist

Margaret Elizabeth Fountaine, was a Victorian lepidopterist, natural history illustrator, diarist, and traveller who published in The Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation. She is also known for her personal diaries, which were edited into two volumes by W.F. Cater for…
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Lepidopterology

Branch of entomology that studies moths and butterflies

Lepidopterology is a branch of entomology concerning the scientific study of moths and the two superfamilies of butterflies. Someone who studies in this field is a lepidopterist or, archaically, an aurelian.
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