Vladimir Nabokov

NABOKV-L post 0013774, Fri, 27 Oct 2006 17:02:07 -0300

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DN's commentaries and Index to "Father's Butterflies" and Pale
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While perusing an old encyclopaedia to learn about "cicadas" ( here they are now singing by the hundreds: it is Spring in Brazil ) I found out about Chapman ( mentioned in Godunov- Cherdyntsev's recollections on "Father's Butterflies"):

Frank Milcher Chapman [ ( 1864-1945),US Ornithologist who did pioneer work in popularizing bird study, etc...]
No entomologist Chapman.

Following DN's Commentaries to the sentence, on page 208, "(as did Chapman and...)", I reached note 54: "VN had not yet invented a co-author" .

Well!

Searching the Index I found in "C" Chapman's Green Hairstreak, 218, leading to a sentence about Chapman's "pathological specimen of avis" (i.e: ornithology)

There was no other entry for the intriguing Chapman on page 208.

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