statement of responsibility: HW

Title transcribed from cover

Prints created by pressing or scraping the scales from butterfly wings onto slips of paper, with outlines and some hand-coloring added later. The paper slips are mounted on leaves of brown paper compiled into an album. It appears that two mounted prints may have been removed from one of the leaves, which show traces of adhesive

Each print is identified by the scientific name of its species handwritten in ink. Captions may include information on the butterfly's appearance as a caterpillar, its behavior, usual habitat, location, color, or scarcity

The Cullman Library has a list of the species name for each print on file

The album was previously thought to have have been compiled by Sir John Kirk, as described in the original Russell E. Train collection catalog entry. The album may have been in Kirk's possession at some point

The album has been digitized as part of the Smithsonian Field Book Project

English anti-slavery activist and Anglican missionary for the Universities' Mission to Central Africa, which had a station established in the Shire Highlands where Waller was probably based between 1861 and 1862

Album of 66 nature prints made from 39 butterfly specimens collected by Horace Waller while on a missionary expedition in the Shire Valley region of East Africa

SCNHRB copy 39088017876038 has the original brown paperboard cover, with title handwritten in ink, signed "HW" [presumably Horace Waller]. Housed in a modern brown cloth clamshell box with built-in book cradle

SCNHRB copy has accession number M079 in the Cullman Library inventory list of the Russell E. Train collection

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