25 November 2012

Photo: Did you know that Vladimir Nabokov was a research fellow at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology in the 1940's? As a professional lepidopterist (butterfly specialist), he named seven new genera of Latin American Blues by studying the male butterfly's genitalia. Check out The Rarest of the Rare in the Halsey Library. Word.
"Did you know that Vladimir Nabokov was a research fellow at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology in the 1940's? As a professional lepidopterist (butterfly specialist), he named seven new genera of Latin American Blues by studying the male butterfly's genitalia. "

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