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Show A Valuable Butterfly. A young man camping in the Sierras ; discovered and captured a butterfly of nn unknown spocies. He sent it to the Smithsonian institution at Washington and received therefor a check for $1,500 ! with the request to make careful search for other moths of the Fame kind. It was an individual of a fossil species, supposed to be extinct, and great was the excitement among the scientists at the discovery that one of the race had been recently alive. Although diligent search has been made by men paid for tho service, no other specimen has been found. |