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  Lepidopterist - About
Lepidopterist is a group of young artists working to produce work of a beautiful and
Lepidopterists carefully collect and study Lepidoptera which are delicate creatures such as moths and butterflies.
Lepidopterist is a group of young artists dedicated to their cause and motived to make it happen.
www.lepidopterist.co.uk /about.html   (227 words)

  
 3quarksdaily
Nabokov's (the name is stressed on the second syllable, so that it rhymes with "to talk of") reputation in the world of letters is so gargantuan that it is easy to forget that he was an accomplished scientist.
Nabokov was a serious entomologist; more specifically, a lepidopterist specializing in the identification and classification of a major group of butterflies, the Latin American Polyommatinae, of the family Lycaenidae, more popularly known as the "blues".
At the time, the distinction between amateur and professional lepidopterist was not made as starkly as it might be today.
3quarksdaily.blogs.com /3quarksdaily/2005/05/monday_musing_v.html   (1477 words)

  
 Computer Arts - The Lepidopterist
Also, around the time that I was starting out, Brian Taylor had just got going on his film Rustboy, which gave me confidence that it was possible to create great stuff on your own, using only minimal resources.
By June 2003 I had begun studying animation at the Art Institute of California in San Francisco, where I lived until 2004, but ended my degree prematurely as the scholarship I was on was only enough to pay for a year’s tuition.
Now I've finished The Lepidopterist, I'm going to spend the summer having fun in France before I start a new degree in September 2005, studying illustration at the University of Lincoln.
www.computerarts.co.uk /downloads/3d__and__animation/the_lepidopterist   (499 words)

  
  excerpts from nabokov's blues
But for lepidopterists, as in fact for most entomologists, the light of celebrity seldom shines outside a narrow but passionate circle of scientists and collectors.
During the Age of Exploration, when the influx of exotic new plants and animals from the four corners of a seemingly boundless globe astounded Europe, the study of biology, often a preserve of the well-born, offered a path to wealth and fame.
In 1999, the centennial of his birth in St. Petersburg, Russia, Nabokov is known mostly as the Cornell University literature professor who, in the 1950's, wrote Lolita, a serious novel with a salacious reputation and an underaged heroine whose name filled a semantic gap in the English language.
www.libraries.psu.edu /nabokov/blues1.htm   (1716 words)

  
 Nabokov's Blues
But for lepidopterists, as in fact for most entomologists, the light of celebrity seldom shines outside a narrow but passionate circle of scientists and collectors.
He had no degree in biology, and as a lepidopterist he was self-taught, having studied butterflies from the early years of his childhood, a passion he described in incomparable images in Speak, Memory.
Those expeditions have taken on the aura of legend among lepidopterists as well as Nabokov's literary admirers, and such trips were a habit he maintained, with only the geographic scenes shifting, for the rest of his life.
partners.nytimes.com /books/first/j/johnson-blues.html   (5221 words)

  
 Southern Lepidopterists' Society - www.southernlepsoc.org
The Southern Lepidopterists' Society was organized in 1978 to promote scientific interest and knowledge related to understanding the butterfly and moth fauna of the southern region of the United States.
Web Links - useful web sites for southern lepidopterists
Drawing by John White, from The Theater of
www.southernlepsoc.org   (260 words)

  
 Utah Lepidopterist
Utah Lepidopterists' Society supports the Utah Museum of Natural History
ULS Hosts 43rd Meeting of the Lepidopterists' Society Pacific Slope Meeting
The Papilio indra complex in Utah (2005 Update)
www.utahlepsociety.org /ulsbul.html   (275 words)

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