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[Nathan Schiff]

Dear All,  I just returned from a week away to all this fuss about the
Illinois field guide pamphlet.  I have studied the book and I have known
both authors for at least 15 years.  The authors are two of the finest
field entomologists I have ever met.  They have been collecting and
studying lepidoptera in Illinois and the east for at least 50 years of
field work.  I consider their skills and knowledge superior to my own.
They have written a very good field guide and I endorse it heartily.

I don't really know what to say about the unpleasantness that has been on
the list.  I know the intentions of both authors was to update previous
information and make the best guide that they could. I know they did a
better job than I or most of the members of the lep soc could.  I feel
that their book is being  used to advance someone else's cause.  Please
don't confuse their effort with this other cause.  Finally, even though I
am a member of the lep soc, for anyone to criticize a book before they
read it just because the authors were not lep soc members, is way to
arrogant for my taste.  

Nathan Schiff 



 
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