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In the minds of most men... an Entomologist is synonymous with everything futile and childish. [Involved in a] science which, in nine companies out of ten companies with which he may associate, promises to signalise him as an object of pity or contempt.

William Spence

What numbers [of insects] vie with the charming offspring of Flora in various beauties! Some in the delicacy and variety of their colours, colours notlike those of flowers evanescent and fugitive, but fixed and durable, surviving their subject, and adorning it as much after death as they did when it was alive.

William Spence

Insects, indeed, appear to have been nature's favorite productions, in which to manifest her power and skill, she has combined and concentrated almost all that is either beautiful and graceful, interesting and alluring, or curious and singular, in every other class and order of her children.

William Spence

Flora with a liberal hand has scattered around us, her charming productions, they every where meet and allure us, enchanting us by their beauty, regaling us by their fragrance, and interesting us as much by their subservience to our luxuries and comfort, as to the necessary support and well-being of our life.

William Spence

William Spence

William Spence

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Born: August 7, 1846

Died: December 13, 1926 (aged 80)

Bio: William Guthrie Spence, Australian trade union leader and politician, played a leading role in the formation of both Australia's largest union, the Australian Workers' Union, and the Australian Labor Party.

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