Tripped over this while looking for something else, and thought someone here might enjoy it:
http://www.illustratedgarden.org/mobot/rarebooks/browse.asp
The Missouri Botanic Garden has evidently scanned and put rare books on the internet in free, digital form. Scroll down toward the bottom to find it.
Beautiful old 1797 manuscript on Georgia butterflies
Neat, thanks!
You're welcome :)
bluespiral - That's really neat to see such old articles/books! Very interesting! Thanks for sharing that link!
If y'all come up with any thoughts or comparisons on then and now when reading this book, I'd be interested to hear them. I don't know about Georgia, but in Maryland, they spray herbicides routinely wherever there's a guard rail along a road - including all the gardens along our street - can't be good for butterflies.