Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 October 1917 — Some Butterflies. [ARTICLE]

Some Butterflies.

The well-known colliery owner, J. J. Joicey, has given all his spare time and a good deal bf his spare money to the collection of butterflies and moths, or, as the scientists call them, the lepidoptera. His collection is valued at a minimum of SIO,OOO, although its ' value is never likely to be put to the test,, as it is destined for the British museum. ~ Practically in every country in the world Mr. Joicey has experts on the TodkbutYor-rarfcexamples.-and it was no mere flight of humorous fancy which inspired the recent picture in Punch of an inveterate “bug hunter,” as the Yankee calls him, chasing a rare specimen across “No Man’s Land” at the imminent risk of hls life, Mr. Joicey’s collection; is so extensive that it takes literally thousands of cases to hold them, and the number is estimated at something over 1,500,000 examples, some of which are practically priceless on account of having become extinct, while one at least is the only known example in the world.