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Darwin's war-horse: beetle-collecting in 19th-century England

By - Peter Marren

'Those Lepidoptera are for children to play with... Give me the Coleoptera, and the king of the Coleoptera are the beetles! Lepidotpera and Neuroptera for little folks; and Coleoptera for the men, Sir!' (quoted in Linssen 1959). Well, he would say that, wouldn't he? Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894), poet and physician, was a dedicated beetle man.

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More from 'BW 19.3 - February 2008 '

Pages	Title	Format
153-159	Darwin's war-horse: beetle-collecting in 19th-century England	Article
161-169	Conservation of bats in British woodlands	Article
172-181	Life on the edge – key coastal soft cliffs for invertebrates in England and Wales	Article
182-186	The Harlequin Ladybird marches on	Article
187-192	Keskadale – an oakwood on the edge	Article
193-196	The ladybird, the scale and the spindle – a highly specialised relationship	Article
160	Through a naturalist’s eyes	Column
224	Twitcher in the Swamp	Column

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"British Wildlife is the pulsating heart of the UK nature conservation movement."

Matthew Oates, National Trust

"The most important and informative publication on wildlife of our times"

Michael McCarthy, The Independent

"Packed with readable, thoughtful, up to date articles; written by ecologists and naturalists for ecologists and naturalists"

Nick Baker, Presenter and Naturalist

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